Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 3, Number 11, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 September 1872 — Page 1

Vol. 3.—No. 11.

THE MAIL.

Office, 3 South 5th Street.

[Written for The Saturday Evening Mali.] MY VISITOR.

BY K. 8. HOl'KINS.

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Over tlio meadows 1 Hunburnt and barp, Oulvt-ring, hovered

midsummer air.

Onlv the swallows On unweary wing. Tormented the stillness With tlieir twittering. .•

The window stood open, And lowered the sasli. ~«.|i Wlien Into it one of them jrCaine with a dash.

I sprang up to seize It With heart fluttering, And nothing was left hut The noise ol Its wings.

II.

Over nriy spirit 3 No longer oppressed, There hovered the quiet Of summer noon rest.

God's love overshadowed And tilled everywhere .Much blessing* unnumbered, Sang In the air.

My poul flung wide open rueJoorof my heart. vVhen Into It one of tlioin Came with a dart. Eager to keep it I held In my breath, When lo It escaped me— The messenger death.

Town-Talk.

IlKADINO THK IWPKKS

Ta a favorite employment of T. T. In bis rambles about town. Ho knows that ovory body roads U10 papers, the city papers with coffee in the morning, tho Cincinnati papers before going to bed, Tho Mail on Satu.rd y, and a few Weeklies on Sunday. But T. T. reads papers, as he said last week about books, not for what tho editors and publishers put into them, but for what they have to say about their roaders. "As lace answereth to face in a plasssodoes tho heart of man" to tho paper he reads. These papi rs art* great babblers. Tty) Kxpress lying beaidu tho breakfast plate says, "A Grant man will be here soon." Tho Journal in tho samo position, declares Lliat a Democrat is exported. It don't say positively whether a Bourbon or Oroolcy Democrat. In fact T. T. ilnds things a little mixed. Tho papers, some of them, seem to bo on a bondor. Tho New York Tribune, as it camo from tho olliee, used to say, "This a radical pocket into which I tako my way." But now it says, I don't know what the politics of my pocket homo is. It may bo Republican—if tho term of subscription has not expired— it may bo Democratic, and it may bo Rnpublicratlc. T. T. can not read the political opinions of men from the papers they tako as well as ho could onco. Still ho don't mako many mistakes. Not many men will read papers with which they do not agree. People don't like to seo themsolvos as others soe them and so thoy will not read what tln» other side has to say about them. Peoplo generally do not caro so much to get tho truth, as they do to got convinced that what they want to have true is true. Tho coming man will read both sides or political eontroverbios, but tho uverogo man of to day roads his orrn side. In religion It is tho samo way. "The Churchman" peering from the pocket, or lying on tho table, tells ol the Liturgy on Sunday, forty

days

of piety In tho Spring,

and good living generally. "The Advocato" tells of slroug lungs well used on Sunday, approving Aniens, lovofeasts, and yellow-legged chickens. "Tho Advance" smacks of Yankee preachers, tall spires, gooi clothes, and not over fastidiousness about doctrine. Dr. K. Lection, Elder Underwater and Rev. Nophlro, and their congregations all roveul their church connections by tho papers which they take. When people have ouco decided what they will believe In rellglou they are careful to read nothing against their faith, but ovory thing In Us favor. Hut there it Earnest, he is au exception. T. T. got awfully puiuded over his papers. He has a paper representing every ptominont denomination. T. T. had never seen tho like. He thought the fpllow could not fbel certain about any thing, and it must be awflil not to know that one Is right and every body else Is wrong. He must thluk other churchea are iust as good as his own, or at least, that thoy have so mo good

Id thein. Ho would be fust as likely to trade with a member of any other church, or one of the "world" as with one ot his own church. He must And he Is wrong sometime* in his opinions and change. This Is whatT. T. thought when he saw that Dolly-Varden pile of papers. T. T. ft nils he was right. Earnest is forever talking about "finding the truth," "charity towards others," "union" and such things. He even thinks that some Roman Catholics will be saved, and that perhaps now and then there is

a

when

Universalis

who will not smell fire. T. T. gets cortfused when ho talks, and don't kaow •what to make of him, any more than he

did

h:

9W tbe papers.

T. T. met a man, evidently a* mechanic, with the Scientific American, and knew at once thut he was an industrious, skillful, and rising mechanic. "You are right" said tho Master Mechanic when T. T. expressed these sentiments.* That man riding out of town and looking over the Agriculturist, which ho had just taken from the oflice, T. T. sot down as a thrifty, industrious, and intelligent cultivator of the soil. Such ho proved to be. Those young folks with tho New "\ork Ledger, the Saturday Night, The New York Weekly, with their blood and thunder stories are spooney. That woman, well dressed, and good looking who buys the Days Doings and Police Gazette, and thoso who send boys to get these, aro no better than they ought to be. T. T. wonders if those who seek victims for their lusts do not watch to see wliit women read such papers. It would help them in their work. What those papers tell of the few women who buy them, they tell of the hundreds of men and boyo who give them patronago. Craft, and Dooley and Bakor must know a "heap" about tho people of this city. Wonder if they road the papers which thoy sell in the same way T. T. does.

Husks and Nubbins.

IX.

tiie oolden virtue.

Wfcat a deal of patience it takes to get through the world You cannot do without it for a singlo hour. And it is not a natural gift, but must be acquired. The lesson begins at birth and ends only at the grave. The little fellow, who is not as old as the full moon yet, is taking a lesson in patience as he lies screaming in his crib till nurse has stitched the last bit of ribbon on her new bonnet and consents at last to soothe his aggrieved infancy. The child passes not a day which is not signalized by somo new lesson in the art of being patient. A nfi even after all these years of incessant and continuousinstruction tho young person who has safely emerged into man or womanhood finds that he has as vet acquired very little of tSedivinoart. lie starts off with fine prospects and in fine liopo- He is full enerxy and purpose. IIo has honesty, confidence and ability. But ho will find beforo he has goue far that there is one things that ho lacks—patience. Something fails and ho is discouraged something goes wrong and ho is all awry. Somebody suspects him, abuses him, slandors him, and he finds suddenly that he is quite a novice in the art of being patient and sell-contained. He Hashes liko gunpowder. IIo has said and dono in a minute what ho will lament for years. He is sorry, and vows that ho will not do so next time. But ho finds that Nature lias anticipated him, and next time the temptation is greater by just so much as to overcome him. But be does learn his lesson after while. There comes a time when ho is invincible when the sharp points of envy and malice thrust into him from overvside are 110 more felt, apparently, theu if he were a caoutchouc man. He has learned to bo patient.

In tho wholo catalogue of moral virtues thoro is none more admirable than this of patience. Look at Job. How his character stands out noble and grand in tho desert of patrUrehial history Thero was a day when his household was drinking and feasting. A servant came and told him tho Sabeans had taken all the asses and cattle and slain the servants. Before this story was finished anotherservant cauie and said tho lire had burned up all the sheep. Another announced that the camels wero all taken away. Theu another came, saying that the house had been blown down

and

all liissons and

daughters wero killed. And Job said: "The Lord guvo and the Lord hath taken away blessed be tho namo of the Lord." Verily pationcc was incarnated when Job was born. But I know a man almost as patient as Job. He lias graduated, I think, from tho school of patience, and with the ffrst honors. Ho is a rare study. The years of steady grappling with tho world seem to havi changed his muscles into iron and his ftico is like thatofasphynx. Thestory of his whole life, of all his struggles and victories (for I do not believe the man was ever defeated,) of all his hopes and ambitious, seems written there, but in hieroglyphic language. Only a little at a time you can read it. as tho light of passing events is cast upon it. This man is a mystery of self-control. He is never even surprised into an impatient word or act, and when the coll of circumstances draws closer and closer around him only the lines in bis face area little deeper and he relaxes no more than marble. h*t would put a tremor in other men's hands and write distrust upon their faces is onlya tonic to his nerves, and stamps his toco with a more immutable determination.

And when you look at him you read that ho has been studying pttience for lorty years.

No other quality perhaps has so endeared the lamented Lincoln to bis

countrymen as his unconquerable patience. Written in every lineament of his face it appears. No exigency was able to overcome it. With all tho great burden of government resting on his shoulders during thoso terrible years, with the sound of battle in his ears, and ofjweeping and wailing in a thousand homes with censure and abnse heaped upon him from every side, ho stood immovable in his divine patience, never fretting, never complaining, never giving way to angor, never abating one jot or tittle ot what ho believed was right kind, patient, hopeful in the darkest hours, waiting and watching lor tho light. The rocame tho tidings of terrible defeat, and bravo hearts failed and almost irresistible was the pressure for conciliation, even at the cost of compromise but Lincoln was not moved by it. As the insect whose tiny house has been torn down a dozen times, will instinctively begin it anew, so ho, as if incapable of discouragement, set patiently about repairing the injury "and regaining the ground which had been lost.

Patience is & groat element of happiness. It is a medicino that will cure almost auy disordor. If one's feelings have been wounded, patience will cure the smart. It he has suffered some grievous disappointment, patience will discover a new hope. If ho has failed in some cherished scheme, patience will give strength to essay a new one. Every day, every hour, every minute of his lifo he will find that patience is the golden virtue, the virtue ol all virtues, the secret of all happiness. It will keep him good-humored when ho would be angry hopetul when he would b© despondent strong when he would be weak.

It is the patient men who aro the really successful men. They set themselves down before their life-work as Grant did beforo Vicksburg, with the full determination to carrv it, though tho river bo turned out of its channel to accomplish their end. Tuey aro not turned aside by any unexpected obstacles, but go to work to remove them as composedly as if they had previously reckonod tho exact dimensions of each by the most approved arithmetic. What would discourage and defeat other men does not discourage and defeat them, because their patienco laughs discouragement out ot countenance. They have got hold of the poet's golden rule, "learn to labor and wait," and use it in their every day lifo. Such men move on to success as irresistibly as the glacier creeps down tho mountain side.

Does any one pronounce this exaggeration and fancy work Let him try the rule. Let the lidgity, fretful, quicktempered man botako himsolf to a persistent exorcise of patience and see whether ho will not soon discover that ho has neglected one of 1 ifo*s most important studies. »$

Amusement Record.

ent's New York Cmrus.—The patrons of amusements wiil rememl»or that tho unparagoned arenic establishment from he Hippotheatron, Now York City, will visit Terre-Haute. on Tuesday next, September 17th, and exhibit afternoon and evening. The troupe of this circus is largely composed of artists who aro known to fame as tho best tn their line, and their performances are characterized by grace, skill and daring. Tho New York circus is a popular entertainment in Torre Haute, and justly so, for in past visits to this city the performances completely realized all promises made in the bills of their superiority and excellence. Prominent among tho artisis are the great John Henry Cooke, the champion six horse ridor M'lle Holland, tho dashing premier bare-back equestrienne Mr. Charles W. Fish, tho unec^Uiled sommersault and pirouette bare-back rider, and Wni. Dutton, the artistic and graceful equestrian. The company is complete in every department, and the entertainments promise to bo uuusually attractive. The circus parade on Tuesday morning will be replete with novel features.

i'M pty umpty."—On Monday evening next the Opora House will be opened for a season of four nights foi tho production of "Humpty Dumpty," by the Abbott Pantomlne and Kirafly Troupe of terslehorean and European sensational artists. The organization embraces fifty artists including a grand corps de ballet. The spectacular trick pantonine of Humpty Dumpty Is the newest edition, In which the above have created their reputation at the Olympic Theatre, New York. The company comes from St. Louis, where it has met with much favor this week.

hs Opera House is next booked for the Jennie Hight Comedy Company— six nights, commencing the 14th of October—then another long Interval until the 13th of November, when John G. Owens comes for two nights.

TERRE-HATJTE, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1872.

People and Things.

Stanley will be a card next winter as a lecturer. General Albert G. 'Meyers Is "Old Probabilities."

All tho policemen of Tallahassee, Fla., arr colored. General Spinner, a faithful officer, is reduced to poverty. 1

Constantinople has but one dentist, and ho is an American. J. A Rhomberg, the Dubuque millionaire, was a poor'man in 1858. 5 Vi

Both candidates for Governor in Maine aro prominent Univorsalists. Horace Greeley is engaged to give three agricultural addresses this fall.

George McDonald, tho novelist, who is coming to this country, hus eleven children.

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The Mohammedans stono any person who has the temerity to predict the end of tho world.

A Marion, Georgia, druggist has invented aseat for loafers with a galvanic battery attachment.

A Pennsylvania man was struck by lighting and cured of chronic rheumatism the other day.

A buggy hunter in tho Wapsie bottom, Iowa, shot at a bird, and blow the top of his horse's head off.

Senator Sumner did not say that Blaine's logic was "too thin," but he said it "lacked density."

A convict in California, having served his time, is engaged in hunting and shooting the intelligent jury that convicted him.

Coxwell, an English aeronaut, suggests a balloon expedition after Livingstone. Is not Stanley sufficiently inflated for that purpose "Sir," said Dr. Johnson, "it is a shame to speak ill of a man behind his back but I think the gentleman who has just loft the room is—an attorney."

Kaiser William, Einporor of United Germany, lost his favorite walking stick tho other day, and advertised for it in the papers liko an ordinary plebeian.

Patrick Henry has been sent to the penitentiary for three years from Marquette, Michigan. Let us now see whether anything was meant by his saying, "Give me liberty or give me death."

Bayard Taylor has left his beautiful home in Chester county, Pa., driven away, it is said, by the intolerance of bis neighbors, whom ho tried to convince that the use of light wines was less injurious than the use of pork.

A Nevada jury brought in their verdict, "guilty of assault and battery" against Willian Twomey, who stabbed Thomas Dowling with a bowie knife twenty-four times, fourteen thrusts entering his body. Jury out three hours.

Andrew Williams, of Posey county, Indiana, blew into his gun to see if it was loaded, and got another boy to hold the hammer back. The other boy let it slip from under his thumb, und Andrew's hoad wont up in a shower of blood, brains and hair.

A week filled with selfishness, and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises, will mako a good Pharisee, but a poor Christian. Thero aro many persons who think Sunday is a sponge with which to wipo out the sins of the week. if

The King of Burrnah can come* Very near making a fool of himself when he trios. His wife having died, he secludes himself and occupies his time in staring at a lot of skulls and other ghastly objects. IIo also causes the late Queen's food to be placed for her dally, and requires that she be spoken ot as sleeping, not dead.

"Old tnan Robinson," of Mt. Clemens, Michigan, aged eighty, swallowed Tour live frogs iu the piesence of a disgusted crowd one day last week. Ho says he docs this frequently, and that they are good lor dyspepsia. We have tried them for supper, fried, and they were good. We shall boar the recipe in mind for dyspepsia.

It Is reported that a man in Cincinnati fell from the top of a four-story building, the other day, to the stone sidewalk beneath, without being injured in the least. He was a life insurance agent, and struck on his cheek. At the time of his fall he was standing on the edge of the roof, shoving his papers at a painter whom he bad treed on a swinging scaflold underneath.

T. Sterry Hunt does not believe in the thinness of the earth's crust resting on liquid Are, such as volcanoes emit. He has weighed the Himalaya mountain range, and proved that it would crush through the earth's crust and disappear in the sea ol liquid fire if the generally accepted notions of the interior and exterior of the earth wero true. Well, we are truly glad this vexed question has been settled at last.but we wonder what kind of scales Hunt used In which to wtigh the Himalaya.

.Feminitems.

Women can be voted for in Iowa. The Empress of China rules her husband.

Kato Field says that a woman without tact should die. Trenton, New Jersey, has an old woman newsboy.

Janauschek, with hor Chosef, will come to us again this winter. The Empress Josephine high back combs of tho last century aro reappearing.

Mrs. Clark, a California woman, edits a paper in tho interests of Georgo Francis Train.

Nearly three thousand women are engaged in boot and shoe making in Philadelphia.

Some women are angry when you tell them you love them. Others are angrier when you don't.

A woman in Lienz, Germany, bocame so extremely pious that she murdered her five children to make angels of them.

Wisconsin hns aTRorgia. Iler name is Lamb, and she disposed of her husband and two children, and commenced on the neighbors. f-

Dame Fashion's latest edict requires that the fair sex wear six, eight and even ten buttoned kid gloves for full dress occasions.

A woman attempted to commit suicide at Chester, Ills., and tho boys threw mud at her. She postponed dying in order to have them arrested, wi?

Girls aro gradually working their way into tho collegiato institutions of this country and England. Tho Academy of Sciences in Philadelphia lias elected a woman to full fellowshij

Howard Glyndon asks a wrnuw question. She wants to know if anybody over imagined what sort of sight would be presented by an interior view of tho six hundred private rooms of a fashionable watering-placo hotel half an hour before dinner or a hop.

Miss Laura Keeno will, during the present season, deliver a lecture throughout the country upon the drama, illustrating certain scones from standard plays by acting them upon the rostrum, being aided therein by three or four professional persons.

A Chicago editor says "Somebody having applied to an editor for a method by which be might cure bis daughter of her partiality for young gentlemen, is kindly informed that thoro are several methods of reform. Tho best are to put her in a well and drop a few loads of gravel on her hoad, or to bind her ankles to an anvil and upset her out of a boat."

Admission to the bar of Santa Cruz, California, has been refused to a legal lady nam^d Mrs. Tator, who consequently opens her Tator trap on the subject of man's tyranny. We would suggest that the pulpits of several donominations aro now open to her sex, and it is proverbial that preaching is easior than practice.—N. Y". World.— But having chosen the law tho question comes up whether lying isn't eusier than preaching.

Scribnor's Monthly advocates uniforms for school girls. "Why is it not just as well lot girls to dress in uniform as boys There are many schools in England where the dress is tho Bame throughout the entire period spent in their education. By dressing in uniform tho thoughts of the pupils are released from the considerations of dress there is no show of wealth,no confession of poverty. Girls and classes come together and stand and fall by scholarship, character, disposition and manners." I

During a fire at Osbkosh, Iowa, the other day, while everybody was busy putting out the falling sparks, the scream of a young woman was suddenly heard above tho surrounding din, and she camo running alojg tho sidewalk with her bustle on fire. It was composed of paper or rags, and burned rather lively. 8he ran and screamed, small boys and dogs got out of the way in hurry, while strong men wore so overcome by the excitement of the occasion as not to have many wits at their disposal. At length a man, bolder than the rest, seized the woman and beat the bustle until bo put tho lire OUt.

A Saratoga correspondent writes: "But to pass from the young ladies, who are so elaborated, look at the old ones who come out in the morning with the same evident intention ef deer iving every one into the belief that they are young and fresh. Look at the light robes, the gay ribbons, the long curls, the Jaunty little hat and were it not lor tho keen gaze beneath the universal veil, one might fancy amiss of sixteen sat under that parasol—instead of a woman of sixty. 'How fearfull and bow wonderfully we aro made' oomes to our mind with a new significance, as we look upon this piece of aged vanity."

Price Five Cents.

Connubialities.,

A STAMMERING WIFE.

When deelpy in love with Miss Emily Pyrne, I vowed 11 the lady would only be mine.

I would always be ready to please her She blushed her consent, though the stuttering lass Said never a wurd except "You're an ass—

An ass—an ass— lduous teaser!" But when we were married, I found to my ruth The stammering lady had spoken the truth

For often, in obvious dudgeon, She'd say— if ever 1 veutuied lo give her a Jog In the way of reproef—"You're a dog—dogdog—

A dog—a dog—matic curmudgeon!" 1 And once, when I said, "We can hardly atTord This immoderate style with our moderate board."

And hinted we ought to be wiser, She looked, I assure you, exceedingly blue, Aud fretfully cried, -You're a Jew—Jew-

Jew—

A very ju-dlcious adviser!'" Again, when it happened that, wishing to shirk Some rather unpleasant and arduous work.

I begged her to go to a neighbor, She wanted to know why made such a fuss, Andsaucliy said, "You're a cuss—cuss

CUS8—

You weie always a—cuss—toraed to labor?" -i

Out of temper at lat with the fnsoleut dame, Aud feeling the woman was greatly to blame,

To scold ine Instead of caressing. I mimicked her speech, like a churl as I am, And angrily said, "You're a dam—dam— dam— .•••"•

A danwige instead of a blessing." —[John G. Saxe. Many a "good match" has proved a Lucifor.

For what port is a man bound during courtship—bound to Havre. The figures show one widow to overy 800 inhabitants in San Francisco.

If a termagent wife cuts her nails every Monday, it is lucky—for her husband.

The other day a*j*outli applied to tho County Clork lor a "recipe" to get married.

Tho complete census returns make out 42S.659 more males than fomalcs iu tho country.

Neither doath nor life is as serious as marriage. Yot nothing is entered into half so thoughtlessly.

Mr. Woolen, of Qulncy, leaves his wife and sevon children to elope with Miss Cox, oi St. Louis.

The question whether a Hebrew can marry his brothor's widow or not has been solved In New York by the Hebrew's doing it.

It has recently been discovorod that nearly nine out of every ten cases of infelicity are between couplcs who have traveled extensively.

Cowhiding with a chair has frequently boon practised, but it remained for John Cart, of Pittsburg, to stab the partner of his bosom with a chair-leg.

An Alabama paper publishes the following notice: "Marrlod, at Flintstone, by the Rov. Mr. Windstoue, Mr. Nehomiah Sandstone and Miss Wilholmina Egglestone, both of Limestone."

A one-armed Irishman at Salem, Massachusetts, having got into trouble with his wife, applied for a divorce recently, and claimed that he was free from her on tho ground that tho hand which ho had given hor in marriago was now gono.

Last week we mentioned that a railroad brakeman in St. Louis nearly twisted his wife's ears off in bis sloop recently. He dreamed he heard tho long whistle. Wo have slnco learned that ho then thought tho train had run off tho track, and woko up to discover that ho had been kicked out of bod.

A contented husband who was asked for a subscription, informed a "society for the amelioration of the condition of women" that he didn't care to have anything to do with the new "women's clubs." "The fact is," said ho, "that my old woman's club Is enough for mo, and sometimes a little too much."

A New Hampshire paper says "A man from London Centre started last Friday with a load of hay for Concord. His wife advised him not to smoke his pipe on tho way, but ho laughed at her. Pretty soon ho came back with most of bis clothes gone, his hair and eyebrows singed, and the iron work of his cart in a bag, upon his shoulder. Then his wifo laughed."

A grass

widow and a young unmar­

ried man wero lined $5 and costs for kissifig each other while riding through the (.treets of Prairie du Cbien, Wis., one Sabbath recently. This is equal to the killing of a cat for desecrating the Sabbath by killing a mouse. But kissing will not languish out West in consequence. Grass widows, however, will prove just as lucious, just as bewitcbingly seductive as ever, and, now that a market price is put upon their labial endearments, the "unmarried young man" will know to just what aniount he should beware of the widows. A young girl out West recently wrote to her "company" in these words: "Comeand see us we have a new lamp which will turn down,down, down, and make the room dubiously dark. This shows some of the dangers into which "young unmarried. men" run. ,,,1