Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 8, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 August 1870 — Page 6

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Throw up the easement! let the pure breeze Of Heaven fan her pale and beauteous cheek, And gently cool her flushed and fevered brow. See how she tosses on her couch of pain: And from her bosom heaves the deep drawn .sigh, And casts her sad hut loving glance on him Whoslts with bowed hea/1 and sunken heart, As, In the darkness of his soul, he thinkf How soon his darling child will pass away, And he, poor man, be left to mourn his loss, And make the sad compare of life, when she, His daily labor o'er, and home he sought, With smile as bright as morning sunbeam stood To make that home to him a Heaven on earth, And that dark hour of trial and woe, When, at his customed time, he'll seek that home To find his hollow footsteps enly give Had answer to her name, as, from his hps. In agonized call that name escapes. Hut is there no relief? Is physic's ^owgj.. gone? Can earth no charm afFord to send, again, The blood, in healthy currents on its way, And plant the rose, onco more, where late it stood, In damask color,'on her lovely cheek? ..Must tears, that rise continuously from our hearts

And overflow their fonts, but fall in vain? Must all our prayers ascend to Heaven in vain? Can nothing save her from the tomb's embrace, And spare her for a while, a little while, To those who love her so that life itself Will seem, when she is gone, of midnight line, And earth a desert and a barren waste. Ah no! that hollow check, that sunken eye, That racking cough, and that dear, gentle voice That weak and weaker grows, as day by day Adown the stream of time the silent hours In solemn silence glide, proclaim, too sure, The fatal truth that when the breath of

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.Shall warm to life earth's green grass and frr'sli flowers, And Joyous call the 111 tie songsters forth "From out their winter homes, their songs 110 more Shall greet th- ear of her who loved tliern well. Hut only be a requiem o'er her grave.

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The struggle's o'er in death's cold arms she lies, I Jke some fair (lower struck down by timeless frost, Upon her marble brow kind friends have smoothed Her dark brown hair, and closed her loving cye.v, And 111 her narrow home, with bitter lc:ffa, From anguished hearts, have laid 'i mortal frame.

God our father and our friend, in whom •The issues of life are death, who hast Within thy Holy Word assurance given That thou no pleasure takest in grieving men,

Look down, in pity, on the stricken ones Who bow beneath this blow, and may It turn )ur wayward hearts to thee and her bright home.

The Robber's Lamp.

"(Jot to go over on foot exclaimed the contractor. ".Not a chaneo of any thing clso." "But, then, it's only five miles, and you'll have butter quarters Micro than here, in this vile shanty. The money will be safer, too—let alone that the men •won't go to work again unless the're paid in the morning."

Is tlie road safe? I don't like the idea of lugging so much money. I could defend mvself, or run but iifteen hundred dollars in small bills is a big package to run with."

Send your valise over in advance." ""\Vhoiii by?" man." •TJ," Islie trust wort ny

Honest as the day and he need'nt know there's any thing in it but dirty linen. He can start now and you can wait till after supper, if you will."

And, so saying, the agent of tho railroad company stepped to the door of the shant v, and shouted for Patrick and, shortly, that individual came—as bright, lively, honesi-looking a son of the' Green Isle as ever helped build a Western railroad.

Patrick Vis, ver honor." "Take this gentleman's valise oyer to the village, and leave it with the sfuperintendent. Toll him the owner'll be after it this evening."

An' is that all. yer honor?" "That's all—only be quick about it, and you'll earn an extra dollar."

I'm jist the bye for that, onyhow. Sure, it's a small bit of a valise." And, so saying. Prt rick picked up the object of his contempt, and trudged away, with an utter absence of curiosity as to the nature of what he was carrying. 'The temporary station at Avhich the "construction train" had lauded the contractor—a gentleman named Perkins—was at the end of the new Air-line Railroad to ami, as the laborers thereon had now for some days been on a strike, abandoning the works, and congregating idly at a hamlet, a few miles distant, thereby compelling their delinquent employers to come to terms, Mr. Perkins had brought a good .share of tlie terms" with him, for immediate distribution, and. after a plain but heartv supper with the agent, he was about to start on his tramp, when it was discovered that a good-sized Western thunder-storm was just about to burst, and the walk was postponed until the sky should clear. In a few minutes more, the rain was coming down in torrents, and kept it up for an hour or so, at the end of which time the contractor paddled away over the muddy road, congratulating himself that the valise in IV. rick's cure was wa-ter-proof, lie's had ft rougher time than I will, anyhow: and now, if I ain't robbed anil murdered before I get there. I shall do well enough, in spite of the mud." And, so muttering to himself, the worthy gentlemen splashed forward.

Our present business, however, is not with his employer, but with Patrick himself.

The parting injunction to make haste liftil not seemed to make a very deep impression on the careless son of Erin and ho trudged easily along, with a shrewd glance at the somewhat threatening sky, growling to himself: faith, an' I'll bo there before he wil and' it don't rain, an' mebbc I will av it doon. (eh, but it's awake one to be givin' a dollar for caravin' the loike o' this!"

A little more tKbn half-way across the open prairie between the railway terminus and the viMage was a tolerably dense grove, and it was after sunset when Patrick plunged under its shadows. Nor h^d ho gone far, bofore, as the gloom rapidly deepened, tlio promonitory flasnes of lightning and the deep, smothered roars of the thunder gave token that the storni was npon him. "Now, an' I cud ownly git to the owld log house, it 'ud kape me dhry. IIowlv Mosrs, what a big flash was that!

And, so saying, Patrick broko into ft very respectable trot, which quickly brought him out into a little weed-grown clearing. In tho centre of this was a small Rg house, the deserted homestead of some discontented squatter who had moved farther westward. It consisted of but two rooms, front and back, and all vestiges of doors or win-dow-shutters had long since disappeared but it promised some sort of imperfect shelter from the rain.

Patrick was but just in time, for hardly had he stumbled over the grassy threshold before the first big drops began to patter, and those were quickly followed by such penetrating torrents as compelled him to select his standing place under as good# corner of the leaky roof as he could find.

Bless me soul, but this is a wet rain, onyhow! I'd not loike to be found dhrowned wid another mon'sportmanty about me clothes. Whisht, now Patrich, me jewel—what's that?"

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advanced toward the door-way. It waft now all pitch-dark, and he could hear the half-muffled voices of men, whose profane utterances seemed to try and direct one another toward the shelter:

Here it is Bob. I wonder if there's anvbodv in it." "Not* to-night, there won't be. Go right in we're comin'."

Patrick was no fool, and he had heard something in the tones rather than in the words—though these were mingled with horrid profanity—which conveyed to his mind the impression that the new-comers were men with whom ho did not care to scrape an acquaintance neither did he like to go out in the storm—and so he quietly glided back into the little "lean-to" that formed the other part of the house, and curled himself up against tho logs.

In a moment more he perceived that three men had taken possession of his late quarters and he lay still as a mouse, while they continued a discussion which had evidently been interrupted by the storm: ....

He won't try to get over to-night, I reckon." 2 Yes, he will he's got to."

But the storm He'll wait till that's over." Maybe he's started." I "Ifho has, he'll turn back. We're safe enough to bag him, an' it's a little the best lay we ever had."

Pretty good pot, that's a fact. Do you know how he's got it?" In a valise, Jim says." "Well, we can take it as well in that as in anything else, as the man said about his whiskey."

But what'll we do with him?" Dead men tell no tales." That's the safest, I guess and they'll lay it to some of the strikers."

Most likely. Have you got the dark-lantern ready?" Not much oil in it." "5

Let's (id it, then. I went to gQj, some, and got into thp boss's private office, and I jiwfr fcftind. -little can hid away'.in his desk. Not another thing worth bringing away. Here 'tis let's till up, an' take a look round."

Thus far Patrick had listened with breathless interest, while his mind teemed with horrid visions of robbery and murder. As we have said, he was by no means lacking in sharpness, and the reference to the valise had not been bv anv means reassuring.

Howly Mother! how did they iver knfrw I was comin' over wid the portnianty? I'd like to know that. Begorrah, I'd betther have turned back before I iver come! An' what's a dollar to pav for bein' murdhered?"

Patrick's thought wero troubling the very soul within him, when he heard what was said about the lantern, and it needed no one to tell him that bis only safety Irom discovery was in retreat. There was some little noise and loud talking in the other room, not to speak of the rain, on the roof, and Patrick had no diHiculty in escaping unheard. Onco clear of the house, lie made a clean run of it for a couple hundred yards, stumbling over logs, tearing through briers, but sticking faithfully to the valise.

Meantime the three robbers had probably been tilling the lamp of their dark-lantern and just as Patrick reached the edge of the woods, in the cover of whose darkness ho knew he would be sale, he turned, and strained his eyes in the direction of the log house. As he did so, a faint gleam of light came out through the chinks and crannies. "Shtrikin' a match," muttered Patrick. "Bad luck to that same for sindin' nieout into the wet!—Howly Mother what's that?"

While Patrick had been speaking, the light had gained somewhat in strength, as if the match was blazing higher but, as ho uttered his concluding exclamation, there came a sudden, blinding Hash, equal to many lightnings, and then a dull and stunning sound, as of some mighty explosion, followed by the crashing sound of heavy bodies falling among the tree-tops near him, breaking their way through the branches.

Patrick waited for no more, but found the road as quickly as possible, and made double-quick time for the village, regardless of the rain. When, less than half an hour afterward, the breathless Irishman with his precious burden, dripping with water, opened the door, of the superintendent's office in the village, he heard that gentleman remark:

What did you say, Jordan I Why," replied the boss," with an anxious tone, "some tool has broken my desk open, and stole a can of nitroglycerine, and I'm afraid mischief will come of it."

Divil a fear," interrupted Patrick "sorra misehiefwas dono by that same. Ownly we'll have to sareh tho woods wid dogs to foind enough of 'em for a dacint wake, or Oi'm mishtaken."

The explanation which followed left little room for doubt, and a subsequent investigation left less but, as Patrick had surmised, there was verv little occasion for a wake."

The contractor got in all right, the men were paid, the road was built, and the moral is: "If you steal nitro^ glycerine, don't till lamps with it if you mean to light theiu yourself."

In Nashua. N.H., a short time ago, a thirtcen-year old girl climbed up between the wings of the new eagle on the city hall aud sat down on its neck. The girl sat in this elevated placc, 115 feet

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f'VHfomia is preparing to ship apples, pears and other flruits to China.

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TBRBF.-HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, AUGUST 20, 1870.

DEPRECIATION OF AMERICAN VITALITY. Dear reader, during this terribly exhausting devitalizing weather, wo have steadily kept to a pre-adopted resolutioh that wo would leave tho discussion of the "heated term" entiroly to the dailies and hoalth journals and, although the above heading might at first sight lead to the belief that our stock of subjects is so far exhausted that wo are compelled to resort to a rehearsal of the oft-repeated platitudes which imnually appear at this season, about the heat, and the dust, and tho way to avoid sunstroke, and how to keep cool, and how to get a good sleep in hot weather, etc., etc. we assure you that wo have something more weighty to discuss.

Wo Americans aro charged with a "decrease in vitalitynot at this particular season but, in general. Wo plead "not guilty to the charge."

What is the evidence of our decreasing vitality? The report of a life insurance company, which shows that out of forty-four doaths occurring during the past year among its insured, eighteen had been insured only three years.

This a cotemporary takes* as ample evidence of the decrease of "American vitality," and gives us a column-and-a-half homily upon our sins of omission and commission, which in its opinion are fast bringing tho nation into a state of physical degradation.

In defense of our plea, we call attention to the following facts. First, that the present competition among life insurance companies, and the methods in which many of them transact business, are such that we wonder the proportion of deaths occurring among their insured is not greater than it is. Second, the fact that we, as a people, bear and endure more than formerly, is an evidence of increasing rather than decreasing vitality.

Only consider for a moment the burdens of dress which our increasing civilization imposes. Think of the bunionbreeding boots, the chest-compressing corsets, ,the fashionable, black silk, headachp hats for males, and the almost entire absence of hat for females. Think of the horrible heaps of hair bundled upon the heads of our women, •and the merciless exposure of the necks and legs of American children.

Think of the indiscriminate way in which we. bolt our tood at all hours, and how that food is adulterated, and how abominably it is cooke J. Think of the gallons of tepid enervating drinks we swallow, and the annual consumption of alcohol and tobacco.

Think of the system of tasking and cramming from books, which we call education, jand how our daughters graduating at eighteen from seminaries of learning, are expeeted to have mastered or done thjur best to master, all the dead and li™nglanguages, the sciences, literature, und metaphysics.

Think of. what frightful drafts upon the hours of natural rest are made by tho balls, routs, and'iarties of fashionable society.

Think of how our young men plunge either up to the neck in dissipation, or rush witluar^ stint into business in the mad race ror i'iches.

Think of how all this rush and bustle, this highly seasoned mental and bodily food feeds the passions, and begets a craving for the excitement which in turn, instead of satisfying, feeds the craving.

Think of o:u' swift joarneys by land and sea. Tf^rdvyhow the telegraph briiigteiAJiL CO an tiles -near, and htvw brents, ^Mtiicvrtj) of ifchich thi rtj, years since woUIu liavO scaree reacbeS- us in months, are now retailed by the news mongers next fnorning before we get down to breakfast, demanding increased activity of brain, and keeping the mind constantly at work.

It is safe to say that an average American of to-day lives more in one year than he could have done in ten, half a century ago.

And yet he stands it pretty well. To bo sure, his nerves are rather sensitive, and he finds it hard to sit still. You will nearly always see him dancing his cane, or drumming on the table, twitching his legs, whistling, or humming a tune. But even these additional drafts upon his vitality are honored by his constitution in a way that shows that although he may, and often does overdraw the account, that account must be a large one at the outset of his career.

No! American lives maybe shorter than formerly, although Ave think there is not good evidence of even this but vitality must be on the increase, or the drains*made upon it would make us all bankrupt.

We rest our case. What say you, gentlemen of the jury ?-Scientific American.

ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES. Dio Lewis says: Now, ladies, I will preach to yon just a little sermon,about an inch long. I don't often preach, but in this case nothing but a sermon will do.

Firstly, you are perfect idiots to go on in this way. Your bodies are the most beautiful of God's creations. In the Continental galleries I always saw groups of people gathered about the pictures of women. It was not passion —tho gazers were just as likely to be women as men it was because of the wondrous beauty of a woman's body.

Now stand with me at my office window, and see a lady pass. There goes one isn't that a pretty looking object? A big hump, three big lumps, a wilderness of crimps and trills, a hauliug up of the dress here and there, and enormous, hideous mass of false hair or bank piled on top of the head, surmounted by a litte Hat, ornamented with pits of lace, birds' tails, etc., etc. The shop windows tell us, all day long, of the paddings, whalebones, and steel springs, which occupy most of the space within that outside rig.

In the name of all the simple, sweet sentiments which cluster about a home, I would ask, how is a man to fall in love with such a piece of compound, doubled and twisted touch-me-not-artiticial-ity, as you see in the wiggling curiosity?

Secondly,with that wasp waist,squeezing vour lungs, stomach, liver, and other'vital organs, into one-half their natural size, and with that long trail dragging on the ground, how can any man of sense who knows that life is made up of use, of service, of work, how can ho take such a partner? He must be desperate indeed to unite himself for life with such a fettered, half-breathing ornament!

Thirdly, your bad dress and lack of exercise lead to bad health, and men wisely fear that instead of a helpmate thev 'would get an invalid to take care of. This bad health in 3 011, just us in men, makes the mind as well as the body fuddled and effeminate. You have no power, no magnet isin! I know you giggle freely and use big adjectives, such as "splendid," "awful," but then this don't deceive us we see through it alL You are superficial, affected, silly you have none of that womanly strength and warmth which are 90 assuring and attractive to man. Why, you have become so childish and weakminded that you refuse to wear decent names even, and insist upon baby

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names. Instoad of Helena Margaret and Elizabeth, you affect Nellie, Maggie and Lizzie. When your brothers were babies you called them Bobby, Dickey and Johnny, but when they grow up to manhood, no more of that silly trash, if you please. But I know a woman of twenty-fivo years, and is as big as both of my grandmothers put together, who insists npon being called Kitty, and her real name is Catharine, and although her brain is big enough to conduct affairs of state, she does nothing but giggle, cover up her face with her fun, and exclaim once in four minutes: "Don't, now you are real mean!"

How can a man proposo a partnership to such a goose. My dear girls, you must it you would got husbands, and decent ones, dress in plain, neat, becoming garments, and talk like sensible, eranest sisteis.

You say that tho mo3t sensible men aro crazy after these butterflies of fashion. I beg your pardon, it is not true. Occasionally a man of brilliant success may marry a silly, weak woman, but to say, as I have heard women say a hundred imes, that the most sensible men choose women without sense, is simply absurd. Nineteen times in twenty sensible men choose sensible women. I grant you that in company they are very likely to chat and toy* with those overdressed and forward creatures, but they don't ask them to go to the altar with them.

Fourthly, among the young men in the matrimonial market, only a very small number are independently rich, and in America such very rarely make good husbands. The number of those are just beginning life, who are filled with a noble ambition, who have a future, is very large. These are worth having. But such will not, they dare not, ask you to join them, while they see vou so idle, silly and gorgeously attired. Let them see that you are industrious, economical, with*habits that secure health and strength, that your life is earnest and real, that you would be -willing to begin at the beginning in life with the man you would consent to marry,—then marriage will become the rule, and not, as now, the exception.

A DISGUSTED JUDGE. "A subscriber" in Tennessee relates the following, and vouches for its literal truth:

As judicial decisions are very popular with everybody, I wish to relate one that I witnessed when the State of Tennessee, now so great %nd powerful, was in her infancy. Sly friend Mr. Bower, twenty-five years of age, who stood six feet in his stockings—that is, when he had any stockings to stand in—became dissatisfied with the appellation of Boh Bower, and thought if he could affix

Squire" to his name it would add dignity to his character with the community at large, especially with the ladies. A vacancy occurring aibout this time, my friend Mr. Bower and a Mr. Johnson offered themselves as candidates for the important office of Magistrate. Mr. Bower, alter treating his friends to a half barrel of whisky (the young ladies will consider initials as standing for rigli good), and having thrashed his opponent twice for telling the truth about him, was elected. Our new made

Squire," although previously standing six feet six, seemed now two or three inches taller, and probably would

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count ror work arid labor done to the amount of five dollars. The Court was held in an old log school-house with the ground for a floor, and the three limbed stool usually occupied by the teacher became for the time being the seat of justice.

Tho plaintiff after being solemnly and legally sworn by our worthy magistrate, stated that I10 had labored faithfully ten days for the defendant, at fifty cents a day, for which I10 was to receive five dollars in cash, which defendant now refused to pay. The defendant, on being asked wliat he had to say why judgment should not be 'gin in agin' him, swore that an agreement had been made with the plaintiff that he should receive his pay in oats. Just here the plaintiff pitched into the defendant, and bit and gouged him most scientifically. The magistrate tried in vain to restore order by moral suasion finally becoming discouraged, and recollecting that his dignity must be preserved, knocked tho plaintiff down, at the same time exclaiming: "I'm sworn to keep the peace and see that tho laws are obeyed,and I mean to do it." After all hands had had a list in restoring order, the Court adjourned to the grocery on the opposite side of the road, and tho crowd liquored at the expense of tho Judge. Harmony being thus restored, the magistrate again took his seat, and after due deliberation thus addressed the litigants: "'Gentlemen'!" (wo aro all gentlemen out here—that is, all of 11s who have tho good luck to keep out of penitentiary), "'Gentlemen,' one or the other of you have sworn to a lie, sure." Then turning to the defendant he said "You bring mo five dollars' worth of oats." And drawing a live dollar gold piece from his pocket handed it to the plaintiff, and exclaimed: "I wish I may be hung if that is not the last case I ever try! ^lle forthwith resigned and although he retained the title of "Squire," the State of Tennessee has never since enjoyed tho benefit of his legal knowledge.".

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.1 MURDEROUS SEA FLOWEIL One of tho exquisite wonders of the sea is called the opelet, and is about as large as the German aster, looking, in deed, very much like one. Imagine very large double aster with ever so many long petals of a light green, glos sy as satin, and each one tipped with rose color. These lovely petals do not lie quietly in their places like those of the aster in your garden, but wave about in the water while the opelet generally clings to a rock. How innocent and lovely it looks 011 its rocky bed Who would suspect that it could eat anything grosser than dew or sunshine But those beautiful waving arms, as you call them, haveanother use besides looking pretty. They have to provide food for a large, open mouth, which is hidden deep down among them—so well hidden that one scarcely find it. Well do they perform their dutv, for the instant that a foolish little fishlet touches one of the rosy tips he is struck with poison as fatal to him as lightning. He immediately becomes numb, and in a moment stops stniggling, and then the other beautiful arms wrap themselves around him. and ho is drawn into the huge, greedy mouth and is seen no more. Then the lovely arms unclose and wave again in the water, looking as innocent and harmless as though they had never touched a fish.

At a Gotham church wedding, recently, the bridegroom and his soon-to-be father-in-law proceeded arm in arm up the aisle, the bride following, leaning on her mother.

POINTS OF ETIQ UETTE. Don't fidget with the hands or feet. Let alone tho watch chain and necktie. Quiet ease, without stiffness, indicates gentle breeding.

Don't speak of persons, with whom you are slightly acquainted, by their first name.

Irritability is a breech of good morals as well as good manners. General courtesy we owe to all.

Be punctual, it ig always annoying to be Kept waiting, and often a serious detriment to one's business.

If possible, always be at the station a few minutes before the cars start. Getting aboard after the train is in motion is not favorable to bodily safety, nor to that calmness of mind which leads us to act wisely.

Don't be disturbed if you find the best seats taken. As no one knew you were coming, of course they did not reserve one.

Have y°ur ticket in vour hand. Conuavn't always the time to wait till the portmonnaie, pocket and travelin£

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it, We once saw a ladv when the conductor demanded her ticket, dive to the lowermost depth of her traveling bag, where she clutched something frantically, and, in blind haste, handed tho waiting officer a fine tooth comb, supposing it to be her ticket, which she afterwards found in the folds of her garments.

When a car is crowded don't fill a seat with your bundles. True politeness is not amiss, even amid the confusion and bustle of a public conveyance. If an open window proves uncomfortable to another you will close it.

Whispering in church is impolite. Besides showing disrespect to tho speaker, it is extremely^annoying to those who wish to hear. Coughing should be avoided as much as possible.' Sleeping, with its freqifent accompaniment, snoring, had better be done at home.

Violent perfumes, especially those containing musk, aro offensive to many people, and to s&m'e positively distressing. Don't scent yourself wjien going to uny crowded assembly. %'Wlieii the postmaster h^ndswyour mail to ytfu don't ask him if "that is all/' When he says there i|*no mail tartly "there ought "gain. If •umming on j$*till the"postmaster handfe you the content^ Such manifes^j&lgp of impatienfceaire unpleasant, especially if he is waxHngtppoii somebody else?

Filially, ^ttnHi^iic and in all places, "Whatsoever ye vPj«l(3Lthat others shoffitl do. to you, do y^oyen so to thorn," for these pimple, "words ajS8 #U of all true courtesy.

OUT MARRYING T9& Y&UNi jMrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton saM f"(3irls do not reach their matimty Suntil twenty-five, yet at^ixteen they*are wives and.mothers all .pver tlve ind, rolfbe^ofjjdl the rights 'and freedom of childhoocF^ft marriagq, eri$pl| in growth and de^Wjlftafefit vital forces needed to builoaIp&a$agorous and healthy womanhood are'sapped and perverted from their legitimate channels in the premature office of reproduction. When tho body is overtaxed, the mind loses its tone and settles down in a gloomy discontent that enfeebles the whole moral being. Tho feeble mother brings forth feeble sons, the sad mother those with morbid ap*jeti£es. The

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trTinits among men is nho result* ot the morbid conditions of their mothers. Heaftliy, nappy, vif,-oroua womanhood would do more for the cause of temperance than any prohibitory or license laws possibly can. When woman, by the observance of the laws oflifoand health, is restored to her normal condition, maternity will not be a period of weakness, but of added power. With that high ^preparation of body and soul to which I have referred, men and women of sound mind and body, drawn together by true sentiments of affection might calculate with certainty on a happy home, with healthy children gathering round their fireside. To this end let girlhood be sacredly devoted to education, to mental, moral and physical growth, to as high preparation for personal independence :.nd ambition as boyhood is to-day remembering that girls, as well as boys, were created primarily for their own enjoyment, and only secondarily to servo each other. Reproduction in the norma] condition of woman will not boa period of suffering, but of joy and thanksgiving. One of the saddest featurcsof woman's present condition is her idea that she is cursed of heaven in her motherhood that it is one of nature's necessities that she should suffer through the period of inatcrnit3T. Tt is because we ignorantly violate so many laws of our being that it is so day." -0-

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Wo have known some ladies who are clever and wise enough to make their own bonnets, and then tho cost of them is very much reduced. All that is required is to understand what fits and suits the person for whom tho bonnet is intended. Every one finds that one shape suits her better than another. Tho next point, in making a bonnet is that the "artiste" should have a light hand, and should make it "off-hand," without letting it lio about to got soiled or tumbled. Things which aro not expensive, but are made of common material, should look fresh. If they have that merit, 110 one will examine them very closely to seo whether the lace is real, or the flowers of the first quality. Satisfied with the general effect aii'd style, 110 inquiries will be instituted into the cost of tho materials. People are not so particular where their eye is pleased. On tho contrary, where the effect is good, cheapness increases its value in the estimation of those who know that one and one mako two.

No one can make bonnets, or indeed any kind of head-gear, without one of those hideous figure-heads called "blocks," upon which the bonnet or the cap is made, without risk of injury. This is the only way in which the miliner can form any idea of the effect of her handiwork. She can turn it about to get the full, side, and back view of her performance, without touching the article in question, which, if it is mauled alnnit ever so little, sexm loses its freshness.

It is remarkable how straw always retains its hold as a material for bonnets. A straw bonnet is, however, a more expensive article than tulle out then it is more enduring, and bettor suited for country wear. There is also another advantage in-straw it never looks vulgar. A country la*s in a bonnet of silk, or lace, or tulle, does not look one-half as well as in a straw bonnet neatly trimmed. Straw is becoming to persons of all ages and of every station. It makes a vulgar woman look less vulgar, and tho ladv more refinod. Though common, it is never so in an offensive t.e nse.

It is estained that America, when her productive power is fully developed, will be able to feed four timec as many persons as there aro now on tho face, of the earth. 4 ^.

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A VEX A TIO US DISA PPOINTMENT. Mark Twain says that while at Naples he "poked arounaand examined a hundred points of interest with critical imbecility." The Grotto of the Dog, however, claimed his chief attention, and his visit to it is thus described: "Everbody has written about Grotto del Cane and its poisonous vapors, from Pliny down to Smith, and every tourist haa held a dog over its floor by the legs to test the capabilities of the place. The dog dies in a minute and a half—a chicken instantly. As a general thing, strangers who crawl in there to sleep do not get up until they are callecL And then they don't either. The stranger that ventures to sleep there takes a permanent contract. 1 wanted to seo this grotto. I resolved to take a doj*.* and hold him myself suffocate him little and tame him suffocate him some more and then finish him. We reached the grotto at about three in the afternoon, and proceeded at onco to make* the experiments. But now an important difficulty presented itself. After I had taken o*ff my coat and bathed a handkerchief witli cologne, and tied it over my face, and got all ready, and was wrought up to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, I recollected that we hadn't any dog. This toned me down some. Well, I thought tho matter over, and concluded to go back to a house, about half a mile away, whero I had seen dog, and see if I could borrow it. Biov grumbled a good deal, for the day hot but mv interest was hot too, an wo started. And so we tramped, tramped, tramped, till I thought we had walked ten miles, and at last wo reached tho house, almost fagged out. We sat there and chatted uwh'ilo, and dropped gent-i ly into the subject of the dog, and fouiuP that the wonum who owned him was prejudiced ng dnst loaning him out to bo experimented on with poisoned air. It was singular, hat wo had no time to discuss the foul'sh prejudices of "them pheasants,"as l&rown calls the peasantrv, and so wo just bought the dog out and out, and started back.' It was a long pull, and a weary one. Pull is tho correct word, because the dog didn't want to come, and so we had to haul him, turn about, by a long rope I10 had around his neck. Sometimes that dog would sit down and brace his forepaws, and it took both of us to start him and when he did come he would come with a yelp, a skip, and a jump, and then I10 would prance twenty steps to the right and twenty to the left, with his paws" in the air, his collar half over his ears and cavort around and carry on like a lunatic. And Brown would 'rair back'011 the rope and sweat and swear. Ilo sXvodpat me, too, for wanting to take so much trouble just to try sonio foolish experiments. This person had 110 appreciation of science. "Well, toward sunset we got the dog to the place, and I took off my coat in a lover of excitement and rolled up my sleeves, and saturated my handkerchief again and tied it over my dose. Anil then—just then, after all my trouble and vexation, tho dog went up and smelt Brown's breath and laid down and died."

Saw it at Last.—A merchant went into a printing ollico a short time since, and seeing a pile o# papers lying on tho table—it beingpnblication day—unceremoniously helped himself to a copy, and said:

I s'pose you don't talc© uny -pny for just one paptrr "Not always," was the reply.

Shortly afterward, the printer entered tho merchant's store and called for a pound of' raisins, •which wis quiukly weighed out to him. The printer took the raisins, saying:

I s'pose you don't charge anything when a fellow don't take but one pound?" 0

No," said tho grocer, after seeing the disadvantage under which he was placed by his own stingy illiborality toj ward the printer, and said:

When I get any 11101*0 newspapers from a printer, I'll pay for them."

Mi.m.tons of money for an inch of, time," cried Elizabeth, the gifted but vain an ambitious queen of England, 011 her dying bod. Unhappy woman! —reclining upon a royal couch, with three thousand dresses'in her wardrobe, a kingdom upon which tho sun novel* sets at her feet—all is now valueless, and she shrieks in anguish, and shrieks in vain, for a single "inch of time" She had enjoyed throe scorc-and-ton years. Like too many among us, she 'had so devoted them to wealth, to pleasure, to pride, and to ambition, that lior whole preparation for eternity was crowded into her final moinonts and hence she who had wasted more than half a century, would now barter millions for an "inch of time."

An Eloquknt Dki-'knck ok Woman.— "Dey may rail against women as much as dey like,"said a darkey, lately, "(ley ean't set me against dem. I hab*always in my life found dem to bo fust in lub, fust in a quarrel, fust in do dance, fust in de ice cream saloon, and do fust, best and last in de sick room. What would we do widout dem Lotus be bom as young, as ugly, as helpless as we please, and a woman's arm am ready to receive us. She it am that guv us our fust dose ob castor oil, and puts clothes 011 our helpless, naked limbs, and cubbers up our foots and noses in long flannel petticoats and it am she. as wo grow up. dat fills our dinner-naHket wid doughnuts and apples as we start for school, and licks 11s when we tear our trowscrs."

The most important chemical discovery, viewed economically, of tho past year, is tho medical value of the hyddrate of chloral. Chloral itself is an unstable colorless liquid, of the specific gravity 1.5. With water it forms a a white solid called the hydrate of chloral, and now used in immense quantities to produce sleep, it is claimed, though not established, that it will control sea-sickness. Being made from alcohol, it is very apt to be contaminated with alcoholate of chloral, which has somewhat different properties, and makes it rapidly attract moisturo from the air

We have a little revelation from Springfield, Massachusetts. A lady, young, attractive, and just married, Je*lt J[ licr home in that city and went into the country, accompanied by her husband. Boon after her debut as Mrs. she attended a sewing society. After tho usual subjects of conversation had received attention tho lunar cclipso was alluded to.

Mrs. did you s^t up to see it, eh?" No, I did not," was the reply "Mr. II sat up. In Springfield, where I came from, they are such a boro—we have them so often

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cr in Florida, and a prominent Democratic politician, who has somo four hundred negro hands employed, constituting a majority of tho voters in his county, has agreed to support ono of them for representative they, in turn, to support him for senator,