Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 37, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 March 1871 — Page 2

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TTORR-ffATTTF. SATURDAY EVENING MAIL. MARCH 11.1871.

Young Folks.

ENIGMA.

We an In th« air that you breathe The water you drink we infest We dwell in we climes of the north,

Likewise in the climes of the west In the oast. In the south, we're there. We are held as a curse by man, We plague him wherever we go,

And tease him whenever we can, Our tribes are as countless as sand. To our myriads there is no end The birds of the air are our foes

We doubt if we number a friend We fight 'mongst ourselves, we're so fierce,

And our tribes on each other oft prey But if we were not so destroyed. You would never exist. Good day.

HENRT HARCOURT.

^SQUARE WORDS.

1. A town in Portugal a town in Scotland wandering a female name splendor. 2. A bird one who opposes lawftil authority furthor on a relative a tree. 3. A measure a plant an amphibious animal an attack a town in Scotland.

JOHN ALCORN IIIVINE.

CHARADE,

My first, tho' small, a deadly foe My next, is fourteen before O My third is often on the poor My fourth, ourselves, you may be sure My whole at supper, dinner, tea, Is eaten with avidity.

CARLOS E. S.

LOGOGRIPH.

They sometimes drag me from the floor, With stick in hand, outside the door, And there givo me a thrashing good I guess, my friends, you'll think that rude. Now this behead, transpose, 'twill show What then denotes to smaller grow. I humbly beg of you again Just to behead, transpose, and then A fruit I name, which you'll have seen If not, you must be very green.

J. A. I.

DIAMOND PUZZLE.

A consonant a boy below a town in Spain a town in France a boy's name a sibilant.

The centrals, read down and across, will give the name of a toyvn in Spain.

NUMBERED CHARADE

My 6, 8, 6, 3, is what yve all have been. My 7, 5, 10, is a drunkard. My 4,1, 10, is a small animal. My 9, 8, 2, is a sheep.

My yvhole is a character in one of Sir Walter Scott's novels. G. K. WEBSTER.

ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, CHARADES AC. IN LAST WEEK'S PAPER.

Enigma.—Air. Charade.—Sweet-heart. Double Acrostic No. 1.—Diomed, Rhesus, thus DoctoR, Isaiall, OgrE, MiltiadeS, EsaU, DemostheneS.

Doublo Acrostic No. 2.—Prussia, Bismarck, thus: ProverB, Rienzl, UndresS, SalaaM, SaharA, IdleR, ArracK.

Word Puzzle.—Almanac. Geographical Transpositions.—Mendocino, Sitka, Chic'go, Tennessee, Peru, America.

DON'T BE TOO CERTAIN.—Boys, doiTt be too certain. Remember that no?£* ing is easier than to be mista^ A-4T if you permit yourself to be tmstaR a great many times, everybody will lose confidence in what you say.

John, yvhere's the hammer It is in the corn-house." No, it is not there I have just been looking there." "Well, I know it is I saw it there not half an hour ago."

If vou say it is there it must be there of course. But suppose you go and fetch it."

John goes to the corn-house, and presently returns with a small axe in his hand:

Oh, it was the axe I sayv. Theiiandle yvas sticking out from a half-bushel measure. I thought it was the hammer." ...

But you said positively that you did seo it. not that you thought you sayv it. There is a great difference between the two answers. Do not permit yourself to make a positive statement, even about small matters, unless you are quite sure for if you do, you will find the habit growing upon you, and, by-and-by, you will begin to make looso replies to questions of great importance. Don't be toot certain!"— Young Pilgrim.

HAWIJIR HORSES.—Not many years ago a gentleman of South Adams, Mass., owned a pet span of horses and a numerous family, yvho were also pets, as yvas every living thing under his protection. The district school-houso was a mile off, over a bleak road in a very snowy country. Theso horses, yvhen colts, yvere accustomed to carry and fetch tho children, and after a while yvero intrusted with the yvhole business. After being hitched up to the old lum-ber-box sleigh, they would "of their own free will," trot up to the farmhouse door, receive some half-dozen or more children, yvho in great glee would "pilo in" among buffalo skins and blankets. Then these horses, without driver or guidance of any kind,

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start off briskly, goto the school-house, turn up to the door, wait for the children to tumble out, then make their turn carefully and return home. At night they yvero sent alone for their load again, and would turn up to the school-house door and wait patiently for tho children. This business yvas done by these horses for twenty years, and their kind master kept them until old ago carried them off.—Our Dumb Animal*.

CROOKED HABITS.—While shaking hands with an old man, the other day, yve noticed that some of his fingers yvere quite bent inward, and he had not the power of straightening them. Alluding to this fact, he said. "In these crooked Angers there is a good text for a talk to children.

For over fifty years I used to drivo a stage, and these bent fingers show the effects of holding the reins for so many year*."

This is the text. Is it not a suggestive one Docs it not teach us how oftrepeated acta become a habit, and once acquired it remains generally through life.

The old man's crooked fingers, dear children, are but an emblem of the crooked tempers, words, and actions, of men and women.—Exchange.

A FOCR-YKAR-OLD'S PRAYER.—One dark, stormy night, mother woke up. Hark! who is talkingT The wind is blowing. It is not that. Who is talking? Mother did not speak she kept still to bear what her little girl said. Alice was not fretting she was not worrying. She was not afraid of the dark'or the wind. How do y*u know I will tell you what she waa saying—

saving all to herself in her anug little bed by mother's bed, "God. take care papa, mamma, I. Good God, take care p«pa, mamma, I. Dear, grand God, take cam papa, mamma, t. God, take care birdies. Dear God up In the sky, I love you, I do, doand with that her little voice died away, and she tell asleep again.—Selected.

CAUGHT HIM THERE.—A little boy waa advised by his father to use illustrations in his conversation whenever they should occur to him, "for," said he, "there is no more forcible way of conveying your meaning." Shortly after, the boy was lectured on generosity. "|t's better to give than to receive, Johnny—for better The Bible says so. and I say so." "Illustrate it, Papa," said Johnny, with a sly laugh in the corner of his eyes, "I think I will understand you better."

A LEGAL, ANECDOTE.—In the early d»ys of Vermont jurisprudence, the strict decorum which now very generally distingushes the New England bar, was comparatively unknown. Nothing was more common than a sharp altication between the bcnch and the bar wranglings, indeed, as would now be termed, "contempt of court," were they only to happen between the lawyers themselves. On ono occassion Judge Turner, who was then plain "Esquire," had addressed a sound argument to the court, and sat down. The judge, who chose to argue the question rather than decide it at once, replied in a feeble argument. which the lawyer in his turn demolished. The judged rejoined by repeating, without any material variations, his first reply, and then "closed the pleadings" by an adverse decision. "Your honor's two arguments," said Turner, addressing himself partly to the court and partly to the bar, "remind me of a story. A foolish old woman in Connecticut, being at a party, was greatly at a loss for something to say. At length she ventured to inquire of a gen1 tlemaa who sat near her, whether his mother had any children The gentlemen politely pointed out the absurdity of her inquiry. "I beg pardon," exclaimed the old lady, perceiving her mistake "you don't understand me: I meant to inquire whether you grandmother had any children

MARRIAGE PRESENTS IN CHINA.—The senseless custom of making so many marriage presents, which is little else than social black-mail, might be much improved if we borrowed a custom from the "heathen Chinee," yvho is knocking at our doors for admission of himself, if not his habits and customs. The Chinese send, on these occasions, costly presents of silk and china, and many precious things to his friend, upon festive occasions, and they are displayed with great pomp and circumstances. But they are never used. They are carefully put away, and when the next wedding or feast comes off some of these presents are sent, and so they are kept circulating from house to house, very often coming back intact to the original giver. He casts his bread upon the waters, and he finds it after many days. The Chinese plan is a great improvement upon our oyvn. It is not wholly unknown in civilized society, but it is recognized as a regular conventional practice, as might be, with great advantage.

PRINTER'S JOKES.—It is the practice among waggish printers, yvhen a "green 'un" enters the office as devil, to play jokes on him by sending him on an errand to a neighboring offiice something that he*~woula be,sure "not to find, and he returns with somo strange articleor other, thinking that in printers's pnraise he has got what he was sent for. A joke of this kind yvas once perpetrated in a neighboring toyvn. A boy, who was rather "verdant," went to learn the printing business, and one of the journeymen loving sport sent him one day with a dish to a certain editor, to borroyv "a gill of editorial." The editor, understanding the game, returned a picture of a jfl|ycass. Tho first one finding himself twher "come over," set his wits toyvork to think how he should be even with the other. At last he called the lad, and told him to go and tell the editor that "it was editorial which lie wanted, and not tho editor."

THE PRACTICAL AND THE IDEAL, Miss Alcott, tho vivacious author of "Little Women," in arecent letter from Rome, referring to tho late overflow of the Tiber, yvhich destroyed many lives, and endangered others, says, "We enjoy the excitement for tho sleepy old city is all astir, and yve drivo about seeing unexpected sights in every direction. Being a Goth and a Vandal, I enjoy it more than chilly galleries or mouldy pictures. It thrills mo more to see one livo man yvork like a Trojan to save suffering women and babies, than to sit hours before a dying Gladiator yvho has been gasping for centuries in immortal marble. It's sad, but I can't help it." lo'

MICROSCOPICAL WRITING. A machine is noyv on exhibition in London, Eng., yvith yvhich the yvritcr, using a pon in the usual manner, can, at the same time produce a duplicate so small as to be invisible to tho naked eye, yet so distinct that a miscroscope yvill reveal evry lino and dot. A most useful application of the apparatus yvill be for tho prevention of forgery, as a private mark can be made, on notes and securities, legiblojunder microscopic power, but yvhich no imitator, could see or even suspect tho presence of. The inventor, a Mr. Peters, states that the entire contents of the Bible can, with the help of this machine, be written twenty-two times in the space of a square inch.

A ooor illustration of flunkvism in high places is afforded by tho King of Saxony, yvho begins a recent letter to the Emperor of Germany in this remarkable style: "Most brilliant, most grand, and "most poyverful Emperor! Best Friend, very dear Cousin and Brother! I have been imbued yvith the most profound satisfaction by tho honored letter of your Imperial and Royal Majesty, conveyed to me by the envoy of your eminently high Lordship."

GRRELEV is taking pains to brand as li«s some of the stories about his chirography. Next, he'll probably deny that when Senator Revels wrote him asking about the best mode of cultivating strawberries, he advised him to plant them with his corn, "dropping two or three strawberry seeds in each hill, *nd letting the vines climb up on the cornstalks. In this way they need no poling, and fruit can be shaken off in the fall and pickloa for winter use."

A SINGULAR FACT.—A woman with an omified face is in a Tennessee hospital. 84nic rears ago, she waa sitting before a fire fn an open grate, when she fell forward in a fit with her Usee in the

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ii[jft ii in burned to a crisp, yet, strange topay, she survived, and in healing the fm»fa indurated into a bard, inflexible and inexpressive riciditv. It is thought possible to restore to its natural state.

A CAT VNDEM THE URAL. Gail Hamilton, in the Independent, on The True Source of Wages, speaks particularly of tho proposea increase of wages of female employees in the United States Treasury Office. The pith of her argument is contained in the excluding paragraph:

An argument brought forward against the proposed increase of salary is that the women themselves did not desire it, and had sent in request to members of Congress not to grant it but this also is vanity. The most thoughtless person must surmise that some sort of a cat is hidden under such meal. People never really want leas money than they can honestlv get and when a workman petitions for smaller wages, it is an indirect way of gaining some other object. So in this case it appears, upon close questioning, that the outside pressure upon the Treasury is already so great that the occupants have all they can do to hold their own and if the salary be increased, they fear they will succumb and be swept away altogether. But this is turning the world upside down, indeed. One would not blame the women. It is not to be expected that a weak swimmer, struggling against the tide, should be philosophical but it yvould be blaineyvorthy, indeed, if cool, grave, dispassionate legislators should frame any layv on pretexts so simply ridiculous.

Whichever yvay tho question is decided by Government is of no general importance, so long as it is decided by Government. When women can demand of their employers any fixed

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trice, and can afford to leave them unthat price is paid, the victory is gained, the staff Is in their own hands. Then their price will be paid, and they have no more complaints to make of injustice. But any liberality or any increase of wages that comes only from an employer's sense of justice or benevolent disposition is of no more account in the solution of the problem than so much money bestoyved in charity. It is another form of independence.

LEAPFROG AT A REL1QO US REVIVAL. "Uncle Billy Cravens" yvas the familiar name by yvhich one of the pioneer Methodist preachers of Indiana was known—the fhther of Hon. J. A. Cravens formerly a member of Congress from the Second Indiana district. "Uncle Billy" yvas noted for his great physical strength and personal courage,and many interesting anecdotes are related of him in connection with these. Hereisone: A camp meeting was being held near Indianapolis, of which "Uncle Billy" was conductor. A great religious excitement yvas the result, and many persons went to the mourners' bencn" for the prayers of the church. Among the rest was a blacksmith, who was reported to have tyvo wives. The bigamist yvas kneeling at tho altar when some one told "Uncle Billy" that the fellow had tyvo living yvives. "Uncle Billy." went to the blacksmith, and, telling him what he had heard asked if the report was true, "Yes," replied the patient, "I am sorry to say it is that is I am living yvith the second woman, but am not married to her." then you must leavo her or leave this altar.*" "I can't leave her," replied the blacksmith, "for we have three children." Then you'll have to get away from this altar pretty fast," replied "Uncle Billy," and seizing the fellow by the pants and collar ho held him up and adoressed the congregation as follows: "When we let down the gospel net yve sometimes catch frogs insteaa of fish, and here is a frog we caught to night. Behold.hoyv he leaps." And suiting his action to his words ho pitched the felloyv clear over the altar railing and outside tho limits marked for the congregation. After this proceeding he quietly said—"and noyv, brethren, let uie meeting proceed."

SHARP WORK.

It is related of the Duke d'Ossuna, viceroy of Naples, that a skillful play upon words he prevented the execution of a great injustice. On the death of a very rich but bigoted citizen, it was found that, negligent of tho claims of his only son, he had left his property to a convent of Caupcliins, at tho same time with a proviso that tho monks should give the young man any part they liked. Having been put into possession by the authority ot tho magistrate, tho Capuchins offered a small sum of money to the rightful heir, but instead of accepting ft ho brought tho affair beforo the viceroy who summoned all the parties concerned to appear beforo him. When he had hoard both sides of tho question, ho turned to the magistrate, saying.— "It does not surprise mo that tho Capuchins, having obtained possession, should yvish to retain as much of tho property as they can but I um astonished that so yviso a judgo as yourself should have so wrongly read tho terms of the will. Does it not ordain that the monks should givo their benefactor's son the part tliev like? Now, yvliqn they offer him eight thousand crowns, while proposing to retain tho forty-two thousand croyvns themselves, it is quite plain to tne that the part they like is the forty-two thousand crowns, and not the eiglit thousand. I decree, therefore, that the monks ftliall immediately carry out^the meaning of the will, ana deliver over the forty-two thousand to the voung man—that being the part they like."

THE DIFFERENCE.

A very clear illustration of the distinction between strength of yvill and strength of mind was oneo given by a young felloyv yvho probably had never read a page of metaphysics in his life. This young gentleman, whose friends called him Bob for shortness, was of an exceedingly nervous temperament, and an unusual indulgence in wine was sure to leave him in a shaky and unhappy condition. Bob had a consequential acquaintance named Waflles, who was gifted with the absorbing qualities of a sponge, who, although in the habit of drinking much more freely than Bob, was never known to exhibit any signs of inebriety. One morning Waffles called upon his friend, whom ho foand seated upon tho stool of repentance, with a yvct towel round his head, and many empty soda bottles by hia side, and shocked at the sight, he began to moralize. "So you were tight again, last night, eh?" said Waffles. "Now, why don't you do as I do? When I have drunk enough, I stop. You should hav« more strength of mind and imitate me." "Strength of inind?" snarled Bob, who, nervous and irritable, had very little disposition to submit to a temperance lecture from such a sourcc "what the deuce has strength of mind to de with it? Strength of will you mean." "Well," quoth Waffles, "what is the difference ?A "I'll tell vou tho difference," retorted Bob vindictively brutes have no mind at all. but a jackasa has more strength of will than any other being that breathes."

A BIT FROM REAL L&M. Behold, from real liip^ thopl intensely sensational, romanco. the gold ftver wag raging throl Eastern States, several yeai~ comfortable,' well-to-do younf having been attached with it, the "aiggins," leaving behUMi1 wife

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two little girls.

OJ» his late return to Salt Lake Brigham Young found his wives drawn up in a hollow sqare to receive him.

Years passed, the man did not return. Hia wife having good reasons to sup-

To him they revealed all. He preferred" to take matters philosophically, andmade arrangements to keep house yvith his tyvo bravo daughters, letting his wife keep to her last lovo without interference on his part.

NEWSPAPER WORK.

Tho Brooklyn Eagle\n an ablo artielo on "Noyvspapor work and yvorkers" truthfully remarks that thero is noother profession but enjoys immunity from observation,as to its' modes. Tho preacher yvrites in tho privacy of his study, and can concoct platitudes or pad out plagiarisms that yvould bo tho ruin of tho editor and reporter. Tho layvyor consults his client and organizes his campaign in privato. bringing into court only as much as makes for his causo and against the cause of his adversary. Tho doctor plies bis potions and launches in his lancet in secret. If tho patient recover, it may bo modicino or may bo in spito of it if ho die, it may bo pills or Providenco, tho physician is scatheless. None of theso como to light that their deeds may bo reproved.

Moreover, the ^rork of tho press is continuous, as yvell as constantly public. Thero is no peace in our war. There is no rest for tho yvcary. Spaco is no more annihilated by telegraph then time by journalism. Tho ovening and tho morning are not merely tho first day, but all tho seven. Night is annihilated as te all its quantities of reDOse. Every minute of every hour of the 2-1 is occupied by somo worker doing somo yvork that shoyvs itself in tho newspapers of the day and afternoon. Repetition is as impossible as rest. Facts are ever new. Comments must bo as fresh as the f-els, and.tho "edition" is a remorseless giant that eats up all the seconds. The making of a newspaper is perpetual motion in a thousand fields. In such a work, demanding ceaseless effort, permitting no pause exacting eternal and "ever varying exercises,it is impossible for wheat to beunmixed of chaff, for accuracy not to be impaired by mistake, for Injustice not occasionally to lie done.

WE are perfectly yvilling to seo tho Roman Catholic Church strip|»cd of il» temporal power—just as willing as yve would be to seo tho English 'lnirHi stripped of the same power. l/'t have a complete divorce of Church and State. But we don't approve the violent utterances yvhich some Protestants, particularly clergymen, speaking at meetings held for Italian unity, think proper to put forth against tho Roman Catholic religion. As a machine of politics, an a tyrannous hierarchy, the Jloman Catholic power deserves not onlv no fellowship, but no toleration, by "Republicans. But as a religion, Romanism has equal rights with Protestantism on American soil. And it would be more in accordance with tho American spirit it would bettor commend the liberality of our institutions

pose him dead, married again. Then, of course, he turned up alive. But he did not come to see her, he only wrote to her. Keeping tho fact of his resurrection a secret from all, the wife managed to maintain, while still livingwith her second husband, a correspondence yvith her first. "Murder yvill out," however, and the daughter—now grown up—discovered the Tetters, and with them tho fact hat they had an own father living. Horrl-V fled at their mother's duplicity, they resolved to go to their father. Joinings party of emigrants they made their toilsome journey across the plains, and reached their paternal ancestor in safety.

Women, however, were scarce in California, and the two girls—whoso brave' feat made them looked upon yvith great admiration by the men who heard of it —were quickly married yvell. and settled in homes of their own. Thereupon the father concluded to look up his faithless yvife. He found her, lor the second time' widow—her last husband having died just in the nick of time. A reconciliation was effect- ~m ed there being somothing to forgivo on botlisides—and both return- 1 od to California, settled near the married daughters, and all hands, it is to be hoped, have lived happily ever since. Verily "truth is stranger than fiction."

WHY NO JEWS IN CONGRESS. A yvriter in tho Jewish Messenger, and yvho is yve suspect, a well-known business man upon Pennsylvania avenuo, discusses the abovo question at length. Wherever Jeyvs are free, he says, they are successful. Whether as artists, sculptors, orators, actors, physicians,, statesmen, jurists, musicians, inventors, travelers, bankers, mochanics, agriculturalists, manufacturers, merchants, or whatovor callingthoy assume, they are not content to hold any secondary position but by the natural bont of their mercurial disposition and plodding determination to combat and overcomo all obstacles, they rise to an altitude controlled by surrounding circumstances.

Why is it, then, that in Europe so many Jews havo distinguished themselves as statesmen, yvhiloin this country yvhoro all breatli the healthful atmosphcro of freedom, the names of all' the Jeyvs yvho havo acquired the dignity of Federal legislators, can be numbered upon the fingers of ono hand?

They are not less moral, less refined^ less charitable than other Americans^ and overv intelligent, unbiased Christian is disposed "to give them a fair chance in the political arena. In times past the Jeyvs nave had yvorthy representatives in Congress in tho persons of the Hon. Henry M. Phillips, Philadelphia. tho yvell-known and able layvyer, and benovolent-hoartod gontloman, tho Hon, Emanuel B. Hartc, of Neyv York.

Tho writer in the Messenger therefore urges Jeyvish young men to proparo themselves to become statesmen by close study of political economy: to afflliate'wltliiflieir neighbors, and joinjt their social organizations to havo a soul above mero amusements and tho "almighty dollar to deport thcinselvos as niglitoned honorablo gentlemen, and bo proud to aeknoyvlodge themselves to be Jews.— Washington Star.

to foreign lands it would better illus

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our constitutional boast of religious toleration—if American Protestants particularly at public meetings, would cease to talk as 1f they, and they only, owned the continent, and that the introduction of Romanism was merely a permitted evil. Justico is blind, and ought not see any diflerence between religions in a free land.—Golden Age.

IT IS the naeerest thing in the world what Cbarlottee Smith, of Rockport, Mass., can want of her runaway nus-

band, whom she describes in an advertisement as "a little man, badly cri] pled in one leg, one leg shorter than other, false teeth, and bald head."

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