Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 3, Number 17, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 October 1872 — Page 1

Vol. 3.—No. 17.

THE MAIL

Office, 3 South 5th Street.

I Written for The Saturday Evening Mail.] THE MYSTIC FO UNTA IN.

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BT KATIkl

Von have often read In the lefc«?.d old, Of fountain mystic ana charming, And the maiden who bathed In Its waters cold,

A.t the time of the early morning, When Aurora's Angers the East is touching With a roseate hue.-

And sprinkled with dew, Kach flower, with charm*. Is blushing.

\t this magic hoar it* waters gave Benuty radiant as the morning s,. And the brow its mystic water* lave.

Had youth's charms forever adorning And though Ihe sun passed on his path to the West.

Morn's beauty still lingers Time's busy lingers liCftves brow by youth's tressed careased.

Tin not all a myth—that fountain may HUll tK) found, if you s«ek, maiden fair: And

tx-Aiity

not

which outlives youth's fleeting

May be yours still, with clinrms the most a And when from the West shadow3 lengthening He,

The sunset's last glow, Will I tmlne the brow ''••With tK'H.iiy more fair than morn sKy.

lJ.ithe In Its magical wave, If you find, In the first blush of life's early day. or Its waters pure give beauty or mind,

The old Gray-beard can ne'er take «\w«y And though on the brow, made by his angers bold, We may find a trace, the heart never grows old ... l,lkc the forest pine on whose top seeu

Old Winter's white crest. While beneath all the rest Is still clothed in a living green.

Town-Talk.

Pllfiillli

HORSE.

T. T. Is not a horseman. His own horsn,—for within a year he has risen lo the dignity of horse and btickboard— is

spoken of In the most Aattering terms by T. T's friends. As he goes jogging about the

streets,

down, some

T. T.

head and tail

who have suspected who

is,

have hinted

that

some

he had better

leave the "plug uglles" for a time and tell the readers ol The Mall what he knows about "ugly plugs." He will do nothing of the kind, but he will yive

hints about

HOUSE CUtiTKriE.

T. 1\ prides himself upon his gtfOd nature few men and no women have Much a reserve fund of this artlble as T. T. Hut he confesses that it makes liim "hopping mad" to see what mean horses are raised in the rogion around (hla city. This confession Is not made in shamo or ponitence, but in honest pride. Tho mah who has two eyes, or one eye to see a horso, who can either ride through this county or take observations on the mures and colts which dime into town and see what abominahie stock Is used for breeding purposes, and what abominable results are produced, and not bo mado mad thereby, ought to be ashamed

of

himself. T. T.

don't take any credit to himself for "righteous indignations" on this score, for

It is enough to provoke a man who nover had the spirit to get uiad at his mother-in-law. In fact here is a good field

In which to enforce the "provoke law." These tnen who raise horses in this region, would use a saw-horse for a breeder if they could make it work, and oven then they would not give it up for the purpose of raising colts until it had become so

weak

and rickety

that It could not be used any longer at tho wood yard. T. T's chief ambition |M)litically Is to get into the legislature in order that he may propose a law punishing with fine, and imprisonment Nome of those who are responsible for the kind of horses which abounds herealouts. If any body thinks T. T. is unnecessary hot over thia subject let him go for one week to a county where good stock is raised, and then come back and carefully observe the horse* whl3b All our street*,—not one in ten a decent specimen of a horae— let him take note of the mares and colts which oorae In, and then let him go out into the country and eee the in area with colts which could not get to town If they were to try. We get accustomed to this thing, and are not conscious of tho real character of the horso flesh about us.

THE FOUY

of raising poor slock, •whether of horses or cattle, la all the greater because it costs very little more to raise the best than the poorrst, Of course the f\r*t cost of first-class breeders would be a little more, and thia Is all the Increase. When the stock Is ones introduced the extra expense is ortr and there la a permanent Increase in value* That farmer has about as clear a title as soy to the term fool, wlio, with a alight outlay, oan, but will not make two spears of grass grow where there was but one, two stalks of wheat where there was but one, two bushels of com where there wss but one, a real betse worth the price of a horse where there was but a half a. horse before. Hers is a work for

Til COO TV FA1B.

At present the most attractive premi urns are ottered tor kind of horses tor which there la, and ever will be 1 Hot iiel demand. Good roadster*, cmiage

horses, and draft horses are what are needed. But for these, mere nominal premiums are offered, and these are to be paid only on condition that the society has money enough left after paying other expenses while the attractive purses and those which are to be paid in full, are for race horses, and a horse which is merely a race horse, as all these are, is of lees real value than T. T's "ugly plug" or even than the stock raised by the farmers now, It is an insult to good morals, and a libel on the name ot Agricultural Fair, to make these attractive chiefly to the stock of gamblers, and an encouragement to keeping and raising horses which are owned by a few honest men who have a special admiration for a fast horse, but chiefly by gamblers who keep them for the purpose of gambling. When our Agricultural Socioty shall bring together here, once a year, horses of real value, and the farmers of the county are compelled to contrast their outrages upon the name ot horse, with the genuine article, there may be created a healthy spirit of progress, and th« Fairs, by the means of the horses present, may become as efficient in improving the breed of horses as they are now in debauching the public morals.

Will not some farmer of spirit and means, try the experiment of raising good horses

Husks and Nubbins.

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^7**. FISTS VERSUS HONOR.

The code" is, it seems, not yet quite obsolete. There are sti'.l vague echoes of the once frequent order lor "coffeo and pistols." The other day the editor of a newspaper in one of the northern towns ol the State sent a challenge to mortal combat to a brother of the quill but the latter, being apparently in less haste to "shuffle off" than his valorous foe, saw fit to decline the bloody invitation. Kach, it seems, had about exhausted bis individual vocabular of personal abuse and the first, finding perhaps from sotno cause, as for instance a lack of juvenile training in that specific direction, an unretentive memory, or, (shall so extreme a case be imagined?) an inaptitude for the acquirement of tho vocabulary of blackguardism, that bis brother editor was in a fair way to put him to an open shame in the matter of flinging opprobrious epithets, concluded to square the whole account by an appeal to that famous arbiter of questions of honor— the pistol. His opponent, was satisfied, however, with tho verbal victory he had gained and was willing to rest on his laurels without incurring the risk of increasing them by a well-directed shot or diminishing them by one unfortunately harmless. And thus are we spared the necessity of adding another to tho famous roll of those who like Hamilton, have gone down into the duelist's grave.

But the affair furnlshos a text for a few words on brute force as aq arbiter of questions of honor. The old code which required the giving or taking of life to keep a man's honor stainless is, It is true, now pretty thoroughly abandoned. But If the body is gone the spirit of it still linger* in the air. The age of pistols and mortal wounds has been succeeded by that of fists and broken noses, and the same false notion of honor which a century ago cooly dispatched the relentless message of blood, to-day impels the pugilistic fist against the offending cranium of the assaulter of honor. There was a time when wonnded honor demanded life now it is satisfied with blackened eyes and bruised feces. We have progressed a little. Our present system of settling grievances is less deadly than the old yet it is of the same kind it Is no less absurd and foolish.

There if too much of this propensity to keep honor whole by making the skin of sn antagonist uhkMc. Brute tores is the poorest sort of sn umpire in matters of resson. A man calls me a list- snd I knock him down does that prove that I am guiltless ot the charge? I can alwsys knock him down if I am the best man, but how does that effect either his or my character for truth And yet the majority of men imagine that be who submits to ceitain terms of reproach or abuse without resenting them with a blow, is a coward, and has suffered sn almost mortal wound to his honor. There could be nothing more abeurd, except the old system of fighting duels.

We must advance a step further. We must make him the ideal man ol honor who never strike® a blow to harm hair of bis adversary unl first ssssulted snd it Is necessary in sell-defence. Let the bully, the blackguard, open his filthy battery on him to its tallest capacity, the man of honor mast hold himself disgraced, not by bearing the words, but by deigning to touch him who utters them* Ko rule of lessen or of honor can compel him to engage in a disgraceful fisticuff, ths cynosure of a noisy crowd, and at the rtak of permanent physical deform Uy, or Injury. The true code of booor

reqaires ot the gentlemen only that he becomes never snytbing less than the gentleman and holds no intercourse with any one who does not demean himself as befits a gentleman.

If another calls him by an abusive epithet be is not to return in kind nor to resent the affront with a blow he la to turn his back on the peddler of billingsgate and walk scornfully away the gentleman is to fling from him the man who is no gentleman as totally unworthy of his notice or thought. He is not to consider him worth even a word, much leas a blow. He is never to have anything to do with him or hold any communication with him until he apologizes and retracts until he places himself again within the limits of decency and assumes, however unworthily, the garb of the gentleman. He need not be angry with the man there need be no fued and no grudge no wishing of harm no laying a straw in his path no utterance ever of a word prejudicial to his character or interests. It is only that there is a barrier between the two which one placed there and which his own voluntary hand must remove if it is ever to be removed.

Such a code would be better than either that ot fists or pistols. It would leave the settlement of quostions of honor where it properly belongs, with the bead and the heart. It would be in accordance with nature's law—punishing by the very necessity of things. It would do something towards purging our language of its disgusting redundancy of abusive words. 'The man who is solicitous of maintaining bis character as a gentleman would be more careful in the use of epithets for the utterance of low abuse would not sully the honor of his opponent, but bis own.

There is no occasion for the bandying or abusive epithets, no matter what the provocation may be, for they are only intended to irritate and enrage, and when anger reigns in the place of reason the result can not help being puerile and disgraceful. It is the low and vicious who find most use for the language of billingsgate, and in proportion as a man is educated and refined will he use bard words the less. It is the spirit in which a word is said, rather than the word itself, wbich makes it count. The true gentleman and man of honor can hurt his opponent more by the proper utterance of a few simplo and decent words than he could by the utterance of the whole vocabulary of the blackguard. And yet there are true geutlemen who believe that it Is necessary to vilify the viliQer and give a blow to him wh9 reflects upon their honor. The Idea is asfalse as that of the duelist and is an unworthy relic of the old "code."

Fashion's Fancies.

The noodles will wear embroidered coat-cuffs and lappels this season. It is said that next winter a long dress on the streets will be a thing unknown.

Imitation tortoise shell ornaments are known among cheap jewellers as mock-turtle.

Anew article ot feminine adornment is a solid metal ling opening on hinges, to be worn as a girdle.

Sandal-wood earrings are very fashionable now, and are made out of the soles of old worn-out sandals.

No dress is more universally becoming always in good tasto than a black one, and this is fact well worthy or note, by those ladies whose wardrobe is limited.

Forest leaves shaded in the darkest tints of autumn are the favorite garnitureof winter bonnets. Half wreaths of rose* of every imaginable color, with long trailing sprays, are seen on the French hats.

Bonnets snd round hsts are so much sllke now-s-days that a criterion by wbich they maybe distinguished is greatly needed. If the strings sre tied under the chignon—hat: if under the chin—bennet. Eureka!

The French are trying to introduce pattern dress goods into the market in place of the plain fabrics which have ruled so long. The earlier specimens of the new goods consigned here have met with very little aale.

Anew style ot earring is a single pearl or diamond, with a fastening like screw stud. It is screwed by this into the lobe of the ear, so thst the stone seems to rest on the ear with no support. They sre quite pretty.

Society has adopted two sensible msxims—first, thst one may call on as many or as tow as he pleases, and the uncalled on have no right to complain •coond, that a hostess may invite whom she wishes, snd the uninvited draw bad manners it they take offence. Bravo! The idea that if a man made oaeeall be wae in duty bound to make a hundred, and that if a lady gave a party she most pack her rooms with •very one she knew, and thus spoil everyone's pleasure, bad become the nuisance of modern society*

TERRE-HAUTE, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1872.

People and Things.

Grant smokes, and Greeley takee the stump. No man has ever saved $100,000 teaching school.

A suicide died by bis own hsnd in Denver. So we are told by the Tribune.

A St. Joe man 'is so tall that he has to get on his knees to scratch his head. —[St. Louis Globe.

A punster chsllenged a si«*k man's vote at the late election on the ground that he was an ill-legal voter.

There is said to be two million cannibals on the globe, but the number of the people who live on other people is much greater.

Jeff Davis* place in the U. S. Senate was taken by a colored man, and now South Carolina is likely to be represented in that body by a full-blooded African.

Frank W. Morgin, a thief in the Illinois penitentiary, has contributed ten dollars to a fund for the relief of the family of a murdered Chicago policeman.

Jacob Jolly terminated his jolly lite of 101 years, at Warrenton, Virginia, the other day. When drawing his last breath he said "Home! Home!" and went there.

The Saturday Review says: ''There is always one side of the man's character which will bear the light, and on wbich the funeral sermon can expiate comfortably.

A Louisville lawyer carries a concealed rawhide, which he draws as occasion requires, to stimulate slow witnesses and intimidate the scoundrel on the other side.

Josh Billings asks, "Who is the coming man among the humorists There is no one I know who has begun to make a reputation for the business. The public will find out that good phools are skarse."

The man who sat up all night weighing a ton of coal with a pair steelyards, and by the pailful, to see that he received full weight, thought he was ahead a few pounds uutil he remembered he had not deducted the weight of the pail.

Ole Bull, when youug, attempted a""

suicide, Bnd he is the best violinist in I 8o6d8,

the world. Thero is, a young mau in our neighborhood who always plays the accordoon, and he is not a success. Probably if he were to attempt suicide be would learn much faster. Should he succeed In his attempt, we would be just as well satisfied.

Joe Hardm, a desperado less than 21 years of age, but who has the bloodiest history of any man of his age In Texas, has been arrested by the sheriff of Cherokee county. He is reported to have killed 24 men in Texas and 4 in Kansas, making 28, since he was 15 years old. His father is a Methodist preacher of high standing.

A Western p9liticiaa is said to hsve suffered in a discussion upon which be rashly entered. It is said by a local paper that he was flayed alive, thrashed into a Jelly, and ground into mincemeat. His antagonist is ssid to have held him op before the crowd snd pulled off his epidermis as essilyasifit had been the skin of a little fig.

The Emperor of Germany is ths most sbstemious of European monarchs. He takes every day but two smsll meals. After rising he takes a cup of coffee at noon some roast mest snd potatoes, with glass of Bordeaux wine and at seven in the evening supper consistIng of bread, sausage, ands cup of tea. Persons invited to the Imperial table express their great surprise at its extreme simplicity.

The Springfield Union ssys: "An Albsny tom-cat, desirous of emulating that Portlsnd cat who killed a baby by sucking its brestb, tried the earns experiment on drunksrd which he found lying insensible on the street. When the recumbent Bacchanalian revived, he found a dead cat lying on his shirt-bosom, with sll the marks of strychnine poisoning."

The Tltusvills Press says: "TUusvllle was not the trfrtbplsoe of the 'Father of bis country,' but we have a man redding here who slipped up on tile muddy crossing this forenoon and sat down on a roll of butter which he was csrrying home, and, inateed of swearing, he simply srose, scraped the batter from his psnts into the peper again, and went on sgain as if nothing had hsppened."

Stokes, the taker oft of FWt, and Foster,.the car-hook murderer, oocu py cells upon the aame floor, aw within twenty feet ot each other, at the Tombe in New York. A pondent wrttee: "Two BM stricken in years, and both crushed by misfort«ne,now visit

the

prtaon several

timee a week. Esch has a son imprisoned for murdsr. Oneoftheee mepis the father of Foster, the other Isthetotbw of Stokes. What a spectacle to see the old men msetlng in ths corridor, each In search of a bloed-stained child."

Feminitems.

Mrs.' M. A. Liver more will lecture in thia city during the winter.

The true maid of honor is the girl who does not jilt her suitor. A Csnadian circus has hired sn Italian princeM to do its bare-back riding.

A Harrlsburg clergyman predicts thst female suffrage will prevail within the next ten years.

Mrs. Father Haycinthe Loyson was a delegate to the National Woman's Convention st Washington In 1869.

Anna Dickinson walked all the way up Mount Washington not long ago. Her legs must be as long snd limber as her tongue.

Some one says that the peculiarity of au American young lady is that everywhere and always she appears to be mistress of the situation.

The Cincinnati Enquirer favors a threatened strike among the masculine clerks of that city that their places may be filled with clerks ol the feminine gender.

The

young ladies of the l'ralrie City wear "tidal-wave breasts," but like most of the country papers now-a-days the are suppposed to contain "patent insides."

Kate Fisher's Mazzeppa is drawing crowds at the Bowery Theatre, New York. Her wardrobe consists of a gorgeously embroidered blanket—on the horse.

Miss Drummond, the Quaker preacher, was asked whether the spirit ever inspired ber with the thought of getting married. "No, friend," said she, "but the rtesh has."

Apparently well authenticated advices state that reasons of a family nature will prevent M'dme Rouzard, HOC Niisson, from making a tour of the United States the present season.

The young man of the period is no more seen pressing to his lips a lock of hair plucked from the tresses of his beloved. He Is too afraid of the new kind of insects, small-pex and salt rheum.

A man in New Albany, Ind., is blessed with fifteen daughters. The house must be a heaven of rest, calm content, and perfect enjoyAent when the girls

«et to discussing the last thing in dry

u?

San Francisco papers are boasting of a little widow In that city who keeps a fruit store, teaches a private school, runs a sewing machine, es knitting, pinking snd embroidery, and goes out nursing.

Madam Demorest, the great fashion purveyor, is also business woman. She is President of the "Women's Tes Company," in New York, which imports large quantities of tea direct from China, snd controls sn extensive trade.

She tripped lightly o'er the crossing, lisping "Dear Johnny," snd was on the point of embracing him, when a rude boy rin up, and holding out a bundle of papors, cried out, "Missis, you dropped your read in' room," and shied down a dark alley.

What is the mstter here?" enquired man coming upon a group ot excited people about a well. "A woman has fallen to the bottom of the well," was the reply. "Ah!" returned the en­

quirer,

shsklng his hesdssdly, "slways womsn st the bottom of it." Probsbly the weslthiest widow in the world is sn English lsdy only twenty-two years of sge, the Honorsble Mis. Meynell-Ingram, to whom her late husbsnd willed sbsolutely an income of a quarter of million dollars annually. She is "without sny incumbrance," snd much speculstion is on foot as to who ahall be the fortunate roan.

Miss Clara Hapgood Naah of Columbia Falls, Me., has been admitted to the bar by thesuprerae court of thst state the first case, we sre toid, in which womsn hss gsined full stsnding in the legal profession in New England. Progress may take Its wsy westwsrd SA a rule, but it occasionally turns bsck snd seeks out some curious out oi the wsy corners.

On election dsy a woman appeared at the Sixth Ward polls in Cleveland, Ohio, lesding her husband by the arm. Ticket distributors crowded around him, but she waved them away, saying, "Never mind, I vote this man She marched him op to the ballot-box, saw thst he voted, and afterwards led up two other men whom she served in the aame manner. Who says a woman has no political infiaenotie

It is somewhat remarkable, the nam ber of fortunes thst §re lying sboat this sseeon waiting for servant giris, washerwomen and other useful mem bos of the community to come sod claim them. The last of which we have heard Is the snug little sum of 18,000,000 franca, said to be ready for a St. Louis wssherwoman wheoever she proves ber titles thereto. We sre very

Price Five Cents.

Connubialities.

*'Tliough fools spurn Hymen's gentle powers We, uo Improve his golden hours, By sweet experience know Thai marriage,

rightly

understood,

(Jives tr the tender aid the good, A paradise below

Long division—Separation for life. A family pa(')stime—Nursing the baby.

Too late for the fair—An «ld bachelor. A loving swain in Maine dedicated a napkin ring "To my almost wife."

Kissing goes by favor—Itiuiigin says he must be favor it goes by him so often.

Three diamonds in a row have superseded the solitalro as an engagement ring.

Which is tho best way to retain a young lady's affections ?—Not to return them.

The married man who stopped out late the other night found a flea in his ear when he got home.

Eight groomsmen, as many bridesmaids, and twelvb ushers were the force st a recent fashionable wedding in Buffalo.

A good many brides have their brldal bouquets conserved, and keep them under a glass case, as mementoes of the happy event.

At a recent church wedding in New York all the ushers were ladies. The good-looking girls and the homely men were shown obscure seats.

A Lowell girl claims that she won ber busband by strategy. lie foil in the river, she grabbed biui, and when he came to the surface he was very much excited, and proposed marriage.

A husband, whose wife has applied for a divorce, writes a protest to the judge, in wbich he says: This plagued thing called a divorce has, In my oplnion, parted many a man and his wife."

At no troment of difficulty does a husband, knowing his own utter helplessness, draw so closely to his wife's side, for oomfbrt and assistance, as when he wants a butUn sewed on his shirt-collar.

A lady wished to ha!ve her husband's life insured in a Boston office the other day, giving as a reason that she wanted either a husband or some money, "she didn't care which." She never expected both at the same time.

Austria has introduced a novelty in the shape of a company to insure peopie against getting married. We don't need anything of that kind in this country, as long as flour and meat and wood and house rents maintain their present prices.

A man selling patent blind bridles applied to an individual who had been unfortunate In his matrimonial alliance, having rushed into the knot somewhat too hastily. "Blind bridles!" he replied testily, "I had one? blind bridal, and I don't want another one. He saw the blind.

The Greenbusb, Pennsylvania, Gazette says: "A prominent citizen of this village went home a few nights since at slate hour, and gently tapped on the door. "Who is it?" inquired his better half. To wbich very proper inquiry the heartless man replied by ssking, "Who do you expect at this hour ot the night?"

There are some people who are unwilling to see other people having a good time. At a recent Maine campmeeting the sisters stood up in a row and the brethren distributed chaste kisses upon their lips. It is said to hsve been the mest enjoysble season in the whole combined experience of the partlcipsnts but now various parties are trying to throw gall into the sweetness of the occasion by ungracious criticism.

It is dangerous for a man to attompt to joke about his wife. He is lisblo to get picked up. For instance, two men were stsnding ons corner engaged In conversation. A lady, not remarkable forpersonsl besuty, passed on the opposite side. Said one of the men:

See that lady going along there I've kissed ber hundred times." "Wbst!"ssid the other, not knowing her, "thst lank, scraggy, pesk-no-sed—"

Stop! great heavenscried the other, "that's my wifo!" Served him right.

Josquin Miller, ths poet of the Sierras, is siring himself in Central Pjtrk with Ten .lie Clsfiin and Demosthenes Victoris Woodbull, while his divorced wifo le siring bis character, etc., In lectures to crowded houses. We sre inclined to look upon Joaquin as a farad and hla wifo a persecuted snd abused saint. While Josquin wss in the belgth of bis fame his wife was supporting his children by ber needle, dragging out a miserable existence over a Chinese

wash-housein

Portland,

Oregon Territory. If balf Mrs. Miller says Is true, Joaquin is brute, snd

much afraid that a good washerwoman ^should be scorned by every howil may be spoiled by this little fortune, man and woman in the land.