Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 8, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 August 1870 — Page 3

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Till': XUWS-BOYS OF CHIC A GO.

Tilt manner of life of these outcasts at the present time is in strange an.i pleasant contrast with what it was dozen years ago.

Our hero of the bulletin was the veriest vagibond. On his feet all (lav, hoarse with shouting the names of Ins jounals, his shelter at night was, in most cases, the interior of an empty box, cavernous door-stoop, or undcrpier hole, in which ho could manage to crawl.

The most noteworthy type we can bring to mind at present was that of a little fellow namea Jerry McCabe. lie was pock-marked, cross-eyed, and had a deep, triangular scar on his left temple, nut was otherwise well-favored, with keen eyes, and sharp, precocious, features. We should judge that he was about thirteen, but the world's warfare had added years to his appearance, and even the tone of his voice was strong unhesitating and manlike. In warm weather he was barefooted, and in "Winter he navigated in an unseasonable pair of number elevens, which were but a poor protection to his little feet, the bare toes of which seldom failed to assert their individualitv somewhere in the middle the leather.

He was always raggeu, swore roundly, and gambled with his compeers but we once saw him give two pennies to a decrepit negress, and thereafter regarded him with a friendly eye.

He was a successful gambler—perhaps an embryo Morrissy—so far as chuckpenny went.

Do you plav on the square, as you call it?" we asked him once. At first ho drew himself up with an air of injured innoconco that would have done credit to a veteran of the l'aro-box, but presently his eye winked roguishly. He drew som tiling from his pocket and said 1 leads or tails, sir? "Heads.''

A broad penny piece twirled aloft and came down tails. "Trv again, sir." "Tails."

It come down heads. We made a dozen guesses, and every time guessed wrongly. "Don't you see through the purty trick, sir

He held up, between the thumb and fore linger of his right hand, a penny, both sides of which bore the impression of a'liead. "Yes, but how did you manige when we wagered the-revvrse—tails?" we inquired.

The coin disappeared down his ragged sleeve with the rapidity of thought and with an almost imperceptible twist of his elbow, his thumb and forefinger held aloft another coin, both sides of which bor the impres-ion of a tail.

We aru very sorry to say you arc a rascal." "Oh, no! I'm a thoroughbred." Then i:" continued, reflecting, and in a despondent tone but ther's too many on 'em as knows it now the trick ain't wli it it was oust, sir."

What do you do with your money?" we asked. (iot some one to take keer of it, sir.

Jood by, sir." lie had not la-en gone many minutes when a sctillling noise caused me to open my olllce door, which commanded the head. We did so to see Jerry in a desperate hand-to,hand tight with a boot-black-—probably some luckless ganr.'ster whose ruin he had wrought, lie Tore wo could reach them they had rolled over into the gutter and separated, u-!i dis ipp'Mriug in an opposite direction. =,

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'About sixty years ago, Phineas Adams enlisted as a private in a regiment of militia, then on duty in England. He soon became disgusted with his position, and shortly after his enlistment applied for his discharge on account of an ulcerated wound in his arm this was refused him, because the wound was of his own contrivance. He had then a similar malady on his leg. lie purposely fell down a flight of stone steps, aiuf was taken up with the blood oo/.ing from his ears. After this lie told the doctor the he was growing deaf. Are 3011 vri/ deaf?" asked his attendant in a whisper, and he imprudently answered Very deaf." From that time, he was held to bo a continued malingerer, and no complaint of his was credited. However, I10 fell into a state of (apparcntlv) profound insensibility. He was bled repeatedlv his head and back were blistered, without producing any sensible effect, and strong electrical currents seemed to provoke 110 bodily sensation. Snuff never made him so much as sneeze, and the most pungent salts only made his eyes water. It was then resolved to try nitrous-o^tide gas. The tube was applied to the man's mouth but his teeth were so fast locked, that 110 power could open them. Then, bv compression of the mouth and nostril, he was compelled to breathe nothing but the gas, when his pulse showed that ho was quilting life, and the experimentalists had to desist. He continued in the condition of a corpse his limbs fell bv their own weight his eyes were closed and he jmid no attention to pins thrust under his finger-nails. In this hapless condition it was thought advisable to resort to the desperate remedy of trepanning. They thought his fall downstairs might have produced a depresion of the brain. Accordingly, his scalp was raised, and the head examined, during all which process the young fellow (who was about eighteen) gave no sign of sensibility, with the exception of a single groan. It was before the chloroform days, ofjeourse, and he must have suffered torture. As no beneficial result accrued from this operation, Phineas Adams obtained his discharged from the regiment. II'* was held, indeed, to boat he point of death. He was discharged on the 120th of August on the '^sth ho was out with his father, with a gun in his hand, and on the next day did an excellent day's work as a farm-laborer. He pretended that he had felt no pain during the last six months, save when the surgeon scraped his head but his recovery was too complete and rapid to 1H credited as genuine. It WHS whispered one day that a sergeant's guard was coming to once more restore him to his regiment, and he absconded the same night. If his cause had been a good one, his CJIMwould have deserved the title of tht Martvrdom of Phineas Admin

A A r.l A XT IfrsuANn.—An unfortunate married nian was very ill-used by his Xantippo he was even treated with an occasional thrashing. His friends rallied him upon this, and at last spurred him on to declare that he would make an effort to bo master/ One day, not long after, his better half was so furious that ho found himself compelled to seek .shelter under the table. Just nt this moment tho voices of his friends wore heard in the passage. "Come out! come out!" cried the wife, fear

Ail of an exposure.

No, no!" cried the husband, in triumph. "Come out, indeed! Not I! Til show for onee that I'm master!"

IX 1)1 AX AFFECTION FOR THE DEAD. Tho spiritualism whieh soems natural to tho Indian mind loads to many extravagant demonstrations. Widows, nnd mothers who have lost their children, havo been known to travel 0110 and two hundred miles, through swamp and forest, to visit tho graves of their departed friends. Reaching the sacred resting-places, possibly alter a twoyears' absence, they find that the dostructiveness of storm and sunshine have left little else than decaying bones. These relics, however repulsive to look at, are carefully gathered up by tho hands of affection. If it is a husband's remains, the widow will address the vacant skull with terms of affection, and repeat long stories of important events that have recently transpired in tho history of the tribe. If it is a mother with the remains of an infant child, she will take the little skull in her hands and press it to her bosom attempts aro made to soothe it (the spirit) with delicate food. All the terms and arts of endearment springing from a mother's heart are brought into requisition. At the end of these unusual rites, tho precious relics aro carefully packed 111 a bundle, taken to the tribe's new rest-ing-place, and buried.

The highest criineagainst Indian ideas of right and wrong, is in tho desecration of the graves of their lathers. I11 disposing of their lands, and consequently proposing to remove, they linger with the most touching affection over the burial-places of the tribe and the last words of regret, and tho last sacrifice they make, are connected with this sorrowful 'necessity. As the Indians bury literally abo've ground, they strew these places* with the property of the deceased and it is common on the Plains to find Indian burial-places, the centre and vicinity of which are covered with blankets", domestic utensils, guns, bows and arrows, and other property, which have been literally given to the departed spirits. And this property must remain, and be most saeredly respected. When these properties of the once living, in the course of time, disappear, it is then considered that they have been inhaled, and literally passed into another world. To destroy them, or appropriate them, is to deprive the departed of their wealth, and create sorrow in tho spirit-land.

Many of the bloodiest wans of tho frontiers have grown out of the thoughtless conduct of the whites in desecrating these Indian graves. Curiosity has prompted tho intruders to break down the resting-poles and rip open the buf-falo-skin to find if there was not something more valuable than decaying bones. The trinkets have been taken away for curiosities, and the utensils, if perfect, for use.

An authentic story is related of a poor, starved Indian, who stopped at a trapper's hut, and begged for something to eat. While being served, the Indian discovered that the dish which held the smoking viands was one that he recognized as being from tho grave of his brother.'" The revelation mado the redman's eyes glare from their sockets with horror and, being too weak and friendless to avenge the unintended but deadly outrage, he precip tately tied from before the presence of one guilty of such an unparalleled crime.—Appleton's Journal.

II AIM STUDY KII.LS XOBODY.— Thought is the life of tho brain, as exercise is the life of the body. There can bo no more such a thing as a healthy brain, as to tho mental department, without thought, study, than there can be a healthful body without exercise. And as a physical exercise preserves tho body in health, so thought, which is the exercise of the brain, keeps it well. Hut hero the parallel ends Ave may exercise, work too much, but Ave can not think too much, in the way of expressing ourselves, for both writing and talking are a relief to the mind they are in a sense its play its diversion. Pent up thoughts may kill, as pent up steam wrecks the locomotive. The expression of thought is like working off the steam from the boiler. When clergymen break down, or publie men or" professors in college, or other literary institution, get sick and die, the universal cry is, "overstudy," "too much mental application." It is never so, not in a single case since tho world began Ave defy proof, and will open our pages to any authenticated case. If a man Avill givo himself sleep enough, and will eat enough nutritious food at proper intervals, and -will spend two or three hours in the open air every day, he may study, and work and write, until lie is gray as a thousand rats, and still be young in mental vigor and clearness. SVhere is the man of renown who lived plainly, regularly, clioi" temperately, and Journal of Health.

lied early?—Hall's

THE SITX AT MIDMCIIT.—Our solar luminary seen at midnight in high Northern latitude makes a spectacle of singular beauty. A witness of such a scene, standing on a cliff 1,000 feet above the level of tho sea in Norway, thus describo its impressions upon a company of spectators: 'Yhe ocean stretched awav in silent vastness at our feet the second of its Avax'esscarcely reached our airy lookout away in "the north the huge old sun swung low along the horizon, like tho slow beat of the pendulum in the tall clock of our grandfather's parlor corner. We all stood silent, looking at our watches. When both hands came together at

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midnight, the full

round orb hung triumphantly above the Avavo— a bridge of gold running due north—spanned the

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and him. There he shone in silent majesty, which knew no setting. We involuntarily took off our hats 110 word was said. Combine, if vou can, the most brilliant sunset anil sunrise vou ever saw, and its beauties

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the gorgeous coloring whieh now lit up ocean, heaven and mountain. In half an hour the sun had swung up perceptibly 011 his beat, the colors changed to those of morning, afresh breeze rippled over the flood, one songster after another pined up in the grove liehiud us —AVO had slid into another day."

This conjunction of the glories of sunset and sunrise may suggest to us I10AV near heavenly glories lie to the shadows of life's eveninu.

PRKSKVATIOX OF MEAT.—Mr.

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THllliK-lf ATTTK SATURDAY EYE NG MAIL. AUGUST 20, 1870.

E E N E A W O I N O FORGET JUS WOIIIK The* oolobratod Fronch General Oatnbronno, when ho wan a common soldier was terribly given to tho sin of drunkcness. One (lav, whon ho WHS drunk, ho struck an oftlcor, and was condemned to death. His colonel, who lovod him for his bravery, obtained his pardon on tho condition that I10 would promise never to drink wino or spirits again.

Twenty-five years aftorwards Corporal Cambronne had become General Cambronne, and had Immortalized himself by his heroic rotroat from Waterloo. Having retired into family life, he lived quietly at Caris, beloved and esteemed by ail. His old Colonel 0110 day invited liini to dinner to meet somo of'his former comrades. Tho plaeo of honor was reserved for Canibronno at tho host's right hand. A most exquisite wine was brought in which was only served on grand occasions. Jenoral,"said the old colonel,

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