Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 February 1871 — Page 1

Vol. i.—No. 32.

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I A N A E IS A E

Neither House wan In session on Saturday last. On Monday iu th« Senate Mr. Dobo from the Committee on elections made a report In favor of the adoption of Mr. Hughes' 15th Amendment resolutions. Mr Scott of this county made an able minority report recommending the rejection of the resolutions*. The reports were discussed at length by Mr. Hughes, after which the

Joint resolution was

adopted by a vote of 29 to 25. In the House the bill to amend the lflth sec. chapter6, concerning promissory notes, &c was passed.

On Tuesday In the Senate the Metropolitan Police Bill was indeflnltely postponed. In the House Mr. Washburne's bill to regulate the sale of alcoholic liquors, drugs, Ac. was rejected. Mr. Barnaby bill to amend par. 13, Sec. 53, of the general city corporation act was rejected. The bill allowing coreuers in certain cases to appoint constables was passed. Resolutions concerning the death of Hon. H. I). Washburn were passed unanimously. The bill to repeal the dog law was rejected.

On Wednesday In the Senate Mr. Hooper returned the bill for the relief of S. B. Davis, late Treasurer of Vermillion county, with a favorable rejxrt. In the House various bill* were discusaud at length.i -n r*

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The Senate on Monday passcil the House bill to authorise tliu removal of tlie custom house from St. Marks to Cedar Keys, Florida. In the House the bill to amend the Act of July Zi, 1808, making a grant of lands in Minnesota to aid in the improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi River, was agreed to. The Committee on Appropriations. reported back the Senate bill appropriating one hundred thousand dollars for the prosecution of work on the St. Mary's Falls Canal and St. Mary's ltiver, Michigan. Passed. The Senate Joint resolution for the appointment of General Sherman as Regent of the Smithsonian Institute, was passed. The bill providing that the pay of Assistant Marshals tor the ninth census, whose pay did not amount to five dollars per day, be increased to that amount, was Agreed to.

Tuesday In the Senate the Income Tax Repeal BUI became a law. In ihe House the committee on Ways and Means, reported a bill authorizing the Secretary of the Navy, alter consultation with the Attorney General, to Institute proceedings, in law or otherwist-, to obtain full damages and indemnifications for the destruction and loss of the sloop of war Oneida, in the Hay of Yeddo, Japan, by collision with the steamship Bombay. Passed. A bill was passed authorizing Mi. Hchneli, of California, to enter at the prwper United States Land Office six hundred and forty acres of land at tlio minimum price per acre,according to the lines of Ills Improvements of tea gardens and other culture, on which there may be no claim except that of the United States. The bill reported from the Committee on Military Affairs to extend the bounty land system to the soldiers and sailors of the late war and to their widows and orphans was passed. edtiesday In theSenate a resolution was passed commending the sufferings of the iM-lligcreiil nations in Europe to the American people, and that the generous system organized for charity be organized for their relief. Also an additional resolution was added requesting the President to communicate to the French Government the profound sympathy *f the American Government and for the people of France who were now suflfetliM under unexampled misfortuno, To «xtetld to them every encourconsistent with the pmUIM. wmi utusr ... hgHpon a firm baSls aiSJlU.ibllc:\n Government. The Consular Diplomatic and Appropriation bill was then passed which reduces the number anil expensed of our foreign ministers and consuls. In the House the fbllowlug kills were passed A bill for the apiiolntmeiit of an additional Attorney General a bill to divide the State of Ohio into three Judicial districts a bill for the relief of purchase land sold for direct taxes In the insurrectionary States a bill to allow discharged convicts, sentenced to Imprisonment and flue, when their term of imprisonment has expired, to go free, on their making oaths before a United States Commissioner that they have no means of satisfy lug the line a bill* to divide the State of Virginia Into two Judicial districts a bill relitmuishing to the State of Michigan the title of the United States to the Fort Grallot Military Reservation.

FOliEWX.

The German Parliament ineetR on the 9th of March. The capitulation of Paris lias caused a feeling of stupor In the north of France.

Gambetta ratifies the capitulation, and will not resign.

A cordon has been drawn around Paris nnt no porson itHowoil to cntor or Irnve without a permit from the German authorities.

The bill removing the capital of the Kingdom to Home, passed the Senate at Florence, by a vote of 94 yeas to 9 nays.

Prince Frederick William will lien-after be Htvled Imperial Highness anil Crown Prince of Germany.

The rejiorts has Iwen confirmed that Hour-

b«»kl ntteinuted to kill himself after the defeat at llelfort. His Inluries are so severe that his life la despaired.

The terras of the capitulation of Paris provides for the possesion of the forts around Paris by the Germans, but no occupation of the city by them, and the Prince imperial Is to be the future Emperor, with the Empress a* Regent.

General ManfrutTel Incloses the army of Bonritakl on the Swiss frontier. He overtook the ntreating French west of Pontarller.and capt umlChappay ami Sombr»xxurt, wltli three thousand prisoners and six pieces of artillery.

The distress In Paris Is very great. The destruction of the railways impedes the revictuallng of the city, and the Germans, meanwhile, are supplying articles of the fir*t necessity from their own stores. Great efforts an1 making to restore the railways. Immense quantities of provisions have tveen forwarded from Brussels to l*aris. The Prussians arc driving In cattle to feed tlw Inhabitants. Postal communication lictwtvn London and Paris has been reopened

The terms of peacc offeml by Blsra.irck to llie Freuch nation are as follows: First—The cession of the provinee ot Aiaace, and that jwrt of the province of Lorraine known as Ocrman-t»r«»lne,

Second—A money indemnity of one thousand millions of francs. Third—Forty war ships from the French fleet.

Fourth—One of the colonies now held by France." The armistice in France begins instantly at l*aris, and three day* later in the Iepartmenta, and expires at noon, February 13. The line of division between the German and Frwich forces separates into two partions each of the Department* i^alvados and Ome. The Germans hold those of Sart he, Saone-ct-I^ol rt\ Lotw-d-ciier, Lolret, and Yonne. The neighborhood of Jura ts 1 the iwtvlmnnof the arm Isludes the naval foros of both I arts of the world. The term*

xceplc*! frtie*s which powt- r- i.n a'. of ea jwiulat. to ti-inaln in Paris having dr»: ••nrr»*n'« National Gnr---d* mk! tain thsjr atM»s. a% »n-Fc-»M.--t.:-' ini I"

*.un» ti: i- til rvc»«ive

v.^roni J. !i OH 4k CO.

Miss Dickinson's speech was one of the bravest ever uttered. An eftort was made during the evening to hiss her off the platform, but she turned magnificently upon her assailant, and cried: "What did the verdict (in the McFarland-Richardson case) mean? It meant^that that man who hisses the truth from tho lips of woman is one of tho men that has murder written over his name in this case. Oh, sir, hiss as loud as you can, you can not silence the truth. There (pointing upward) stands all this cloud of witnesses."

This thrilling appeal produced a profound sensation, and Miss Dickinson poured out a stream of impassioned eloquence which rendered the occasion a marked one in the history of her long line of triumphs, recalling the days of tho war, during the remarkable canvass of Connecticut, when she spoke to picked audiences of voters, and the enthusiasm she excited knew no bounds.

As of old, her lips seemed touched with the live coal l'rotn olF the altar. Never did she show herself more earnest and devoted, more fearlessly and magnificently brave. Her tone of thought was everywhere noble and inspired. She declared in the outset that she had "no mirth, no rhetoric, no satire to give her hearers that she came as a sorrowful woman, by reason of the sorrow she saw about lier," and she asked: "What is to become ol homes and wives?" To men she remarked "You have no right to love—you have no right to a wife, in the best sense of the term, if you are not, in the truest sense of the world, a husband in return. You have no right to love, loyalty, faithfulness, purity and truth, however much you may desire thom, if you do not give for thein the full measures equivalent. Love signifies companionship, friendship, under? standing, some similarity ot sentiment, of pursuits, of interests. It is not a mero passing fancy or a pleasing hour it is not an episode. It is somethin at, coin menci ng he re, g^s c^^^Uj

the grave toth^t^V^w^tgtMljeyoiid lor love is the essence of God, and must be as immortal as Himself."

Young men, she declared, amuse themselves until they become blase, and then marry for a resource. Young women marry for the same reasons, and the results are ruined homes and sundered tics. Men in tho future, as in the past, she declared "Will exact from woman earnestness, companionship, friendship. Men again, as in times past, will exact from their wives faith, patience, loyalty, sweetness, purity, truth. They will give just what they please in returnV not as the light of the mile, but as the generous gift of the husbaivi."

At tho eiose ot her lecture she sounded the key note of the future and told men plainly what thev are to expect: "The same road shall be traveled by men's feet as by women's the same justice shall 1M? meted to man as to woman the same law shall be established for ono as for the other. I know what vou know, if you wish to confess it. I know that God is no respcetor of persons that He loves alike the soul of man and the soul of woman. I stand hero to warn you, sirs, that the woman of the present is not tho woman of the past tnat she will mete to you as you mete to her. I give you fair warning that the law of the times to come, whatever the law past has been, will be coualitv, justice, evenness between what you give and what you receive.— Herniation.

a LASS l'A PER- WEIGHTS. l-.very one has seen and ^idmired those paper-weights of colorless hemisphcrieally shaped glass, in the center of which are bouquets, portraits, Ac. but few persons know- how or by what means these things are incarcerated in the center of the glass. The lirst thing done in those representing flowers is to sort and arrange a certain quantity of small glasa tubes of different colors in the cavities of a thick molten disc, disposing them according to the object to lie represented. This done the tubes are enclosed between two lavera of glass. To do this they begin by placing on one side of the disc Which contains the tubes a layer of crystal, to which the tules soon become attached. When this is done the disc is removed and the second layer of crvstal is placed on the opposite side, 'fhe object being placed in the center between these two layers of glass thus soldered to-

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ether,"it becomes necessary to give the its hemispherical form, which is done when the crystal is again heated, by means of a concave spatula of moistened wood. It then only remains to anneal and to polish it on the wheels. That a glass ornament, being covered with a layer of hot glass, should reccive no injury or change of color, may be easily understood from its extremely refractory nature. On the contrary, a weightconiaininga portrait is made differently. If we examine one of these, under the lower part ol the ball will be fbund a piece of green cloth, the use of which is to keep in place the objccts which, instead of only forming one body with the covering of glass which surronnds them, are only placed in a cavity made beforehand in the center of the half spherical ball. In a word, to take out the gl^ ornaments it would be necessary to break thej' :*erweiirht, whilst to take ut theott„-a it would suffice to take off the doth.

TERRE-HAUTE, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1871.

General Chancy'* headquarters are at Laval. The Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Nineteenth and Twenty-fifth Corps are at iereon,Bourses and Nevers. General Bourbakl lias the Eighteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-fourth Corps at Routands and Pontardler. Oarlbaldi is at Dijon with *.000 men. General Faldherbe has the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Corps at Arras,, Donai anil Cambrai. Lavsel is In front of Havre with 30,000 men: the camps of Instruction contain 250,000 men. The conscripts of 1871 number 900,000 men.

THE BELLS OF SHAN DON.

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f}, Willi fond atroctioa ,j,' S And reeollce.tion

tW»k upon those Slmndon lells, jV hose sound so wild would

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the dnys of childhood

TblWjHIng around me their magic spells

MEN'S

ML1S DICKINSON ON RIGHTS That Isbmael of tho press, the New York Sun, jfinro ft strikingly characteristic roport of Miss Dickinson's lecture on Men's Rights, delivered not long since in Steinwuy Hall in this city. It was mixed up with letters and disjointed scraps of evidence from the McFarland-Richardson trial, and illustrated by a wretched caricature of the lecturer. We know by this howling and gnashing of teeth how true ana cutting were the speaker's words.

ponder

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wander.

And tjie grow fonder, sweet Cork, of thee, with thy bells of Shandon That sound so grand, on Thtfjilea.sant waters *f the river Lee.

X'v£ heard the bells chiming Full many a clime in, Tolling sublime In the cathodral blirine

While at a glib rate Bfass tongues would vibrate: But an their music spoke naught like thine.

For mem'ry dwelling On each proud swelling

Of fcb£beJfry knelling its bold notes fr •Made the bells of Shandon Sound far more grand, on 1 lie pleasant waters of the river Lee. xs&, J- i-' ,:M I ve heard bells tolling

s,-''s

Okl 'Adrian's Mole" in,

rolling from the Vatican

-And cymbals glorious, sSwiiiKlni uprorious, In the gorgeous turrets in old Notre Dame.

Bat thy sounds were sweeter Than the dome of Peter Flings o'er the Tiber, pealing solemnly 0, the bells of Shandon 8ound far more grand, on The pleasant waters of the river Leo.

•^There's a bell in Moscow, While on tower and kiosko In St.

Sophia the Turkmau gets, nd loud in air ills men to prayer he tapering summit of tall minarets tffuch empty phantom aI freely grant them Butjmere'a an anthem more dear to me *®Tis the bells of Shandon 5£That sounds so grand, on The pleasant waters of the river Lee.

HOW THE PLUMBER FIXED MY ft BOILER. A few weeks ago the boiler over my ki^ji^n range sprang a leak, and it becamjp jiecessarv to invoke the assistane&W plumber to fix it—for builders havSa way of arranging these boilers so tlfjjit they arc entirely inaccessible to everybody but their accomplices, the plutttbers.

So called upon a plumber, and he told me to let the fire in the range go out that night, and he would be around enrly in tho morning with his workmen.

Tb&fire went out, but in the inornpluinber failed to make his apQ. fasted on cold liver and hy'ater. was not kindled next mornuse I thought the plumber token that morning -for the other

terfirigid breakfast of radishes Ice-Water, and still the plumber

'flBjpWwas kept out of the range overy

J|Mn»ing.

noon, and night for three

until the Whole family were so full of cold victuals that they attHHs* ofj&rspepsij whtL.

v.„e

evening I ordered th&ser-

vafMokindle a fire, and have the range ready to cook our breakfast in the morni'

About daylight there was a furious ring at the aoor bell. I looked out, and there was that disgracefnl plumber, with an army of assistants loaded down with pipe, and boilers, and pickaxes, and mining tools, and general material enough to furnish a small machincshop with an outfit.

I went down and opened tho dooi, and led tho graud army back to the kitchen.

The range was red-hot. When the plumber-in-chief saw it, he looked mad, and, throwing his tools upon the floor, ho tried to show me how many times he could violato the Third Commandment in a minute.

And all tho assistant plumbers sat around in tho chairs, and swore and joined in the chorus with vigorous unanimity.

Then the head plumber said ho would be hanged if ho would touch that boiler until the range got cold.

So he rallied his grand army into the yard, and piled up the tools and materials where they would gash and macerate the hired girl every time she went out of the door after dark.

Then the plumbers left in a body. Three weeks more of cool diet. At last the plumbers came and began to work.

First he directed operations against the rear wall of the kitchen. He tackled it in such a ferocious manner with chisels, and drills, and sledgehammers, and monkey-wrenches, that I was terriblj* frightened, and said to him: "You seem to be quite in earnest, my so"-" i,„

He said he always was that was his style. "Verv well," said I "but there is no particular use of blasting away at the house in that manner. If you want to work vour way through to the front street, it will be shorter to go round by the alley." ..

He smiled a scornful smile, and fi'P" ped his thumb at me over his shoulder, as he said he "guessed he was bossing this job, anyhow."

So he ripped and tore and dislocate^ until ho had removed the entire rear wall up to the roof, and the side wall about naif way along to the diningroom.

He then took the old boiler and went awav, leaving the yard full of bricks and "mortar and rubbish, and tho house so exposed that every member of the family caught cold, and burglaries to the average number of two a night were committed, so that I hadn't a spaon left in my house.

In ten days the plumber

cai"®™™

with anew boiler and a gang of brickla vers. After working a week the walls ^wcre built up again, and there seemed to be a prospect that the affair would end very shortly.

One evening the plumber came into the parlor, with mud on his boota, to say that the hole left for a boiler by the bricklayer was made too small th/»ugn an unfortunate mistake, and he ^"f'lild have take the newly built wall all a a in

I asked him if he didn't think that It would be a good idea for tne to giv* him a perpetual job on that boiler— whether be wouldn't consider it nice for me to engage him as a kind of per

ennial plumber, to roost around in my backyard through the unending cycles of eternity, banging at boilers and smashing rear walls

This deplorable plumber said that he thought it|would be aJgoocLidea, and lie started off as if to give qrders to begin tho work of demolition.

I then grasped the plumber by the collar, and, presenting a seven-barrel-ed revolver to his head, I made him swear a solemn oath to put that boiler in and finish the job all up that very night.

Reswore. A He put the boiler in its place and closed up the orifice, after which ho handed in a bill for ?658 35 for boiler and sundries.

I paid it, and the next morning I sawthat tho boiler was leaking as badly as ever.

I think he must have put the old boiler in again to spite me. But it may leak, it may drown us before I will call another plumber to my assistance.

^ANOTHER MOTIVE POWER., The stone drilling machines in the Mont Cenis tunnel, as well as, we believe, in the Hoosac tunnel, are moved by compressed air, which, we are told, can be fed to, and used in, steam engines without difficulty. It is now proposed to bring into common use this motives power, compressed air, in several cities of this State, and in a very ingenuous manner.

Some weeks ago a gentleman, who has undertaken this enterprise, visited Rochester, which has an important water power, with tho object of using such of this force as now goes to waste, to accumulate a store of compressed air. By a very simple contrivance he believes himself able to use cheaply tho power of the falling water to condense air, which is then to bo drawn off into reservoirs, whence it is proposed to supply it, through largo air tight pipes, to machine shops and other places requiring motivo power at a distance from the reservoirs.

If this plan succeds at Rochester, it is said that an attempt will be made to utilize the immense force of the Niagara Falls to compress air, which is to bo conducted to Buffalo, twonty miles distant, and there turned to account as a motor.

Somo calculations which have been made induce tho persons engaged in this novel enterprise to believe that tho equivalent ot a horse-power, which costs, when steam is used, in this city, about $150 per annum, can l)e furnished by them at the reservoir of compressed air, for about 912. When ijt Ji conducted to a distance, the

could norDe fei The pressure of air needed, it is said, is equivalent to about seven atmospheres. Of course, no fires will be used with this motive power the danger of violent and dstructivo explosions will boat an end air engines will be much more easily managed than those worked by steam, and if compressed air can be cheaply furnished in cities, it will become an'immense convenience in many ways.

Its uses need not be confined, either, to places having falls of water at hand on the seaboard the power evolved in tho rise and fall of tho tides could be utilized, to compress cylinders of air cheaply and if the plan succeed at all, there appears to be no reason why steam should not be superseded, in New York, bv air as a motive power or why ships should not be loaned and unloaded, goods hoisted in warehouses, and the litis in hotels and public buildings moved by means of compressed air.—Scientific American. -•.

COMMERCE OF THE WORLD. France exports wines, brandies, silks, fancy articles, furniture, jewelry, clocks, watches, papers, perfumery, and fancy goods generally.

Italy exports corn, oil, Max, wines, essences, dye stuffs, drugs, fine marble, soaps, paintings, engravings, mosaics, unci salt.

Prussia exports linens, woolens, zinc, articles of iron, copper, and brass, indi-

Sacco,

o, wax, bams, musical intruments, towine, and porcelain. Germany exports wool, woolen goods, linens, rags, com, timber, iron, load, tin, (lax, hemp, wine, wax, tallow, and cattle.

Austria exports minerals, raw and manufactured silk, thread, glass, wax, tar, nut-gall, wine, honey, and mathematical instruments.

England exports cotton, woolens, glass, hardware, earthenware, cutlery, iron, steel, metalic wares, salt, coal, watches, tin, silks, and linens.

Russia exports tallow, flax, hemp, flour, iron, copper, linseed, lard, hides, wax, ducks, cordage, bristles, furs, potash, and tar.

Spain exports wine, brandy, oil, fresh and dried fruits, quicksilver, sulphur, corn, saffron, anchovies, silk, and woolens.

China exports tea, rhubarb, musk, ginger, borax, zinc, silks, cassai, filagree works, ivory ware, lackered ware, and morocco.

Hindoostan exports gold and silver, cochineal, Indigo, sarsaparilla. vanilla, jalap, fustic, campoacly wood' pimento, drugs, and dye stuffs.

Brazil exports coffee, indigo, sugar, rice, hides, dried meats, tallow, gold, diamonds and other precious stones, gums, mahogany, and India rubber.

lasses.

and preserves, wax, ginger, and other spices. Switzerland exports cattle, cheese, butter, tallow, dried fruits, linen, silks, velvets, lace, jewelry, paper, and gunpowder.

East India exports cloves, nutmegs, mace, pepper, rice, indigo, gold dust, camphor, bensine, sulphur, ivory, rattans, sandal wood, zinc, and nuts.

United States export principally agricultural produce, cotton, tobacco, flour, provisions of all kinds, lumber, turpentine, wearing apparel.—Iron Age,

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Said he would. How would it do, for instance, to tear down my whole house, cart the materials and the cellar around to his shop, rebuild the dwelling, and lit the boiler into it then take it to pieces again, haul the stuff back, and construct the entire edifice, boiler and all, on the old site?

Pricc Five Cents,

THE LAST LITERARY SUCCESS. Tho New York correspondent of the Boston Sunday Times gives the following interesting literary gossip:

You hare doubtless road "Little Breeches" and "Jim Blndso," which have been going the rounds of tho papers—tho first for about six weeks, and the other for as many days. Col. John Hay, formerly Private Secretary to President Lincoln, and now attached to the editorial staff of the Tnbinie, is tho author of* the poems, which have brought him hO much well deserved though sudden fame. He says that two iiiontns ago he was lying awako nights, wondering how ho coula get enough literary work to keep him busy within the past fortnight he has had applications from three prominent magazines and half a dozen newspapers to write for their columns,and the most of theiu are ready to let him write what ho

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leases and on his own terms. What a it makes with an author whether he is famous or not!

Many people imagine that poetry is written as one would indite a letter to a friend or make out a grocery bill. "Little breeches" was written in

Satimlay

ieces. Colonel Hay heard the story on evening *and the next day. while sitting in a church and listening to a dull sermon, he composed the Ian lour lines of the poem. Then he wrote the four lines that, precede these laat( and finished his efforts for tho «lnjr. The next day he wroto tho fourth verac, and then followed it up with the Afth and sixth. Then he wrote the ttvat, second, and third, and, atler some alterations and transpositions, it then assumed the shape in which it went into print. 'Jim Bludso" waS tho work of a single morning, and was written, vosae after verse, pretty nearly as it has heeti printed. The story is a true one.t bongh the names of Jiiu Bludso and the Prairie Bello are fictitious. The hew was the resident of a town in Illinois wliero Col. Hay once lived. In the first verse are the lines: "Where have you been for the last litres years,

That you haven't heard folks tell How Jimmy Hludso passed in his checks •. The night of the Prairie Belle'.'"

Col Ilav went to Kuropo at the of the war and was Secretary of Legation at I'aris, Madrid, and other places. After an absenco of four or five yours he came back, and, while visitina (he town referred to, he inquired lor a steamboat engineer who formerly lived there. There was a look of astonishment on tho face of the person to whom he addressed his question, aud I hen he heard the story which lias become immortal in Jim Bludso. He receives with th^ most becoming modesty the compliments that are pouring upon him from all directions, and 'will probably try hits pen at something in the same lino when ho feels tho spirit moving him to do so. Some critics have ac«tlied him of imitating Bret Harte. ere

is thia^iufllarlty ikiha poem»

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hits been a writer of verses thi^n a dozen years, and followed the line he is now following long before '"Trtuliful James" or "The Heathen Chinee" made their appearance, the charge of imitation has about as much foundation as the moon hoax.

LOAFERS.

This word, whether applied men or women, is equally suggestive of meanness or laziness, and the education of the peoplo should bo directed towards making it as distasteful as it is unworthy of manhood or womanhood. Mrs. Stowc says a woman belonging to tlio upper classes, who undertakes to get wealth bv honest exertion and independent industry, loses casl-o, and is condemned by a thousand voices aa an oddity and a deranged person. It is this feeling that needs correcting. Women should take moro part in the active affairsof life. Wo can hardly overestimate the advantages which would result from men in trades and professions aliowingNheir daughters somo participation in the work of their daily lives. What girls want is a larger observation of the world, and a deepor knowledge of human nature. There are few of our merchants and manufacturers and professional men who could not largely avail themselves of the services of their educated and competent daughters and if such services could be rendered generally available, it is not too much to say that a wider and more fertile Roeial life would rise for mankind. Men's occupations would in no sen#

prejudiced, whlist women

would at once find that outlet for their faculties for which many of thom havo been so long striving. A certain responsibility would increase their selfreliance. A capacity for earning would remove their senso of dependence a definite occupation would bring both health and cheerfulness and the larger experiencesof life would give forco and completeness to their mental character.'' _______

O RIG IN OF A POP ULA SONG. Some of the sweetest songs, poems, and stories in the language have their origin in some little incident that not only ondears them to the writer ]erwonally, but also strikes a chord in the hearts of thoso who read and who admire it.

Dexter Smith, tho popular song writer, whose fame extends on lx»th sides of the Atlantic, owes to a little incident of this kind the great success which attended his song of "Ring the 1 Hoftly," which has not only been published in nearly every newspaper in America and England, but has been translated into foreign languages. Mr. Smith, in consequence of llljbealth, and to obtain out door exercises, secured a situation somo years since as letter carrier in the Boston Postofllce department, and waa upon one occasion about to leave a letter at a private residence, when, seeing the emblem of mourning upon the knob, thought came to hirn not to disturb unnecessarily the sorrowing occupants of the house with tho usual postman's ring," but to summon them as quietly as possible. No soonerhad tho thought entered his mind than he conceived the idea of writing a poem upon the subject, and this was the result. A fortune was made out of it by the lucky publishers, and Mr. Smith received live dollars.