Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 3, Number 23, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 December 1872 — Page 1

Vol. 3.—No. 23.

Husks and Nubbins.

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THB SUPFRAOB MOVEMENT. The Prairie City leads in the woman suffrago movement, as it doe* generally in matters of free thought and free speech. Somehow the broad, fertile prairie* which surround her stimulate the sentiment of liberality, and the keen piercing winds which strike and buffet ber, nourish self-reliance and independence. The Radical City might very properly be her name, and if it Is not so printed, Is so understood. Not a down towns in the Union of her size are known so widely and familiarly as Terre-Haute. There is a certain vim and )annty daring about ber which attract attention from every stde. Everybody knows that the Prairie City is not a/raiti to do anything she is the Irank, ^honest, Impulsive maiden who sou all hor class-mates in ecstasies of delight and apprehension by her ardent and emphatic manner of doing tblngH. They make fun of her sometimes and try to bring her actlsns into ridicule but it is only to tease ber a little, not to show that they really disllko her. On the contrary, their mouths are filled with her praise and they talk eloquently and sincoroly of ber neatness, elegance and general thrift and comfort. And they know, moreover, that she will be just what she pleases, regardless of what they may approve or condemn that slio baa a mind of ber own and i- not at all backward about asserting it. ,.

Such being Its character ami reputation, It seems eminently proper that the question of the enfranchisement of woman should bo first seriously considered and practically met, In TerreHauto. The initiatory meeting which was held a few evenings ago, and which the writer bad the sincere pleas ure of attending, was a sufficient indication that tho doctrine of woman suffrage has got beyond tho point of bolng laughed at. The hundred men and women who came together that night wero not of tho crowing and cackling sort. They wero eminently respectnblo people and had duo, earnest faces. There was uo windy talk and random disputation they wore quiet, serious and evidently felt thai tbejr ware taking a responsible step, yot a s'.ep which each one of them was willing to be responsible for. They met to work and when the work was done, or rather laid out to do, they went home to carry out praotically the plans they had agreed on.

It was peculiarly proper, it seems to me, that M^Jor O. J. Smith should be chosen as head of the new Kociety. He has always been the fesrless and conscientious champion of progressive thought, a most true and noble Kadloal. lie never stops to count how many they are who agree with him If bo thluks a certain idea or policy is right, no other Incentive is necessary to constitute hiui Its champion. Tho Mail always was, ay it continues to be, the advoeato of the woman's rights movement and to its influence, in a large moan ure, may bo placed the strong sentiment In favor of that movement, which prevails among the intelligent oitlsons of Terro-Hauto.

Now I believe thnt this effort to secure a largor and frcor life for woman is right and must at length result successfully. Some «of the best minds in the nation, both malo and female, see In It nothing but what Is fair and Just and right and they have set themselves to accomplish it. Their numbers ate steadily augmenting. If there is not so much noise as there was at an earlier day, it is because the doctrine has lost its novelty and a meeting of womsn suffragist* can be reported in the newspapers without exciting the deep contempt, or dire consternation which formerly greeted Its publication. In short, there is leas fuss and more work. The honest and conscientious supporters of ths measure are mustering and organising their forces. Associations are being formed In different sections ot ths country and the practical business of reform has been commenced. The merits of the movement are discussed by the fireside and In the social circle and It Is nndsniable that the mm are diminishing and the pro* increasing. Stability is taking the plsoe of novelty serious de-nand, of sportive auppUoatlon.

Nor lathers any discouragement In the foot that the movement has not yet reached fruition—that women are not yet allowed to vote. On the contrary, the progress msde has not been small ths reaulta achieved have been of the moat gratifying character. Why, In some of the Territories the reform has been bodily adopted and at the late election several women voted in New York. What If action has been brought against them for so doing snd tho courts have taken the matter In band Nothing could snlt the woman suffragists better they have been appealing to ths courts in vain' for the last ten years. What they want Is to have ths subject Invsstigated any decision will produce comment and comment will win new supporters. Ths friends of

woman suffrage have no need to complain at the barreB result of their efforts they have gathered fruit already and they should remember that the crop multiplies fast when once the trees has begun to bear. No reform that Is worth making can be made in a day there must be time for the seed to sprout and grow and ripen. What if Oarrison and Greeley had become discouraged with the anti-slavery agitation because for many years it did not knock the shackles from a single slave? Their business was to fight for, and not despair of, its success. It must be, they said not, it looks as if it would be. The true reformer 1s little affected by success or failure. He works for his reform because he believes it is right, not because be thinks it will succeed. The less likely it was to bucceed, the harder he would work.

But there needs no exhortation to tbe woman suflragists. They are not only determined to stand by tbeir cause, but they are confident of its ultimate success. They have no intention of laying down their arms until they have achieved victory and victory they are bound to achlevo.

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THE "MUBBINS"

In the bundle of "Husks" which Tbe Mail took to its readers last week were few and more nubby than usual—too much cob. T. T. ia not one of the people who believe that religious liberty means liberty lor other folks to believe what he does and nothing olse, nor that freedom of speech means freedom to say what one pleases provided he pleases to say what

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thinks he

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for himself snd ditto for all other people. "Husks and Nubbins" has aright to make an argument as weak as he plooses against the Bible or strong either. If he thinks that the belief that the Bible is divine is a harmful or dangerous one, or if he has something better to otter, then it is well for him to fight this belief. But T. T. has an idea that It Is not well for a fellow to sot up the religious opinions of people as a mark and sling ink at them "just for fun," or to try one's skill. In the bouse where T.

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boards there is an

old cat In which his eyos cannot see one attraction. He would like nothing better than to empty bis shot gun into old Tab at a fair distance, or to draw a bead on ber at' forty paces and see if he could not put a ball through her eye. But T. T. wouldn't do It because the children seem to think that old Tab Is a wonderful treasure, and he don't Uko to hurt their feelings unnecessarily. If Miss Fuss caught the chickens, or was unhealthy for the children, T. would be delighted to serve them by administering to her tbe lead pill. But "Husks and Nubbins" didn't seem to think the Bible a very bad book or that tho belief that it is divine in any way harmful. Tho belief don't hurt any body, but does a good many people a great deal of good. Ho docs not offer any thing which ho claims is better. But, like too many writers in these days, he seemed to want to shoot at something and so he let drive at some opinions of other people which at least are harmless and which they think are very important. T. T. believes that whon any opinion stands in tbe way of what is right, and the interests of the community it should be attacked no matter how much it hurts people's feelings. But because T. T. don't like cats and don't think there is any sense in liking them that is not a good reason for shooting cats at pleasure. Let tbe children and "ye ancient maids" have their eats snd snjoy them, they msy be of some use. At least as much respect should be shown to the opinions of people, especially to their religious opinions as to their cats. If "Husk's snd Nubbins" does really think that the confidence in the Bible as dlvlns is harmful as standing in way of something better then T.. T. withdraws ths lecture on Shooting for Fun. H. and N. says: "The first argument la that ths Bible hss been reoeived as of divine origin bv the most cultivated, Inqulaltivs and Incredulous races of men. This doss not prove that It la divine, lor many errors have been accepted aa tbe truth by men, and men may be mistaken in this matter."

It may bs true that it does not prove it. Bat there are a great many good argumsnts which us not positive prooifc. If "the Bible hss been reoeived as of divine origin by ths most cultivated Inquisitive snd incredulous rsoes of men,"—and H. and N. does not deny it,—it Is an argument, though not proof positive, in fevor of ths foot that it is ot divine origin. Because men may be mistaken, that doss not prove thst their opinions are worthless, and cannot bs nsed aa arguments.

In reply to the argument that the writers claimed to be inspired and that a talss aiaim of this kind is inoonsistsnt with tbeir characters aa good men, hsssys

I answer thai their pretending to be Inspired would not necessarily maks them bad men for they might believe that a pretention to Inspiration was necessary to tbe success ot tbeir undertaking and that tbeir undertaking waa beneficial to ths world. In Uim o*ss

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thsy might nst be bsd men, but very good men." Therefore if T. T. thinks that a new Railroad or Court

It is objected that the fact that the Bible reads like a true book, its majesty and sublimity, the probability of its historical details, the reasonableness of its requirements, and good fruits of tbe religion which it teaches, do not prove it divine. But aa it is probable that a book of divine origin would contain all these marks, the fact that they are present is a solid argument in its favor.

Again it is said "it appears that neither or tbe arguments noticed Is sufficient of itself to establish the divine origin of the Bible and If no one of them, then not all of them, for each must stand or fall by its own merits."

Apply this principle to another. The body of a murdered man was found floating in a river. A stable was found where the same material was used as that in which .these bodies were packed. That did not prove that the keeper of the Btable was tho murderer. Blood was found on the side of the stable, proved to be human blood. That did not prove who was the murderer. A billy was lound there—bloody clothes were found, but this did not prove that tbe owner of the billy and of the clothes was the murderer. Tbe man was last seen going to tbe stable, tbe keeper of the stable owed him money, they had had trouble, the stable keeper was seen carting away barrels about this time. Not ono of these things proved that man a murderer. H. and N. would plead for the men "It appears that neither of tbe arguments is sufficient of itself to establish the man's guilt, and If not one of them, then not all of them, for each must stand or fall by its own merits." Therefore the keeper of the stable did not commit the murder. Who falls to see that tho' no one of the arguments ooncerning the guilt of this man is positive proof, yet all of them make it almost absolutely certain that be is tbe guilty man.

In reference to the agument from miracles H. and N. says: "We have only tbe testimony of men who lived hundreds of years ago to establish the fact, and these men might themselves have been deoelved, or deceived others."

This is an easy method of doing away with every fact depending upon tho testimony of history. It is not a fact that "Columbus discovered America, or even that there ever was a man by that name, for "we have only the testimony of men who lived hundreds of years ago to establish these facts, and these men might themselves have been deceived or deceived others." According to this short hand method we can be certain of nothing that took placo before wo were

TERRE-HAUTE, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7,1872.

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thing for Terre-Haute he can deceive tbe people, lie to them, and still be a good man. If H. and N. abould think that be could do more good by pretending that his bundles of husks and nubbins came down every Fridsy from heaven be would be justified in telling this whopper. T. T. fears that H. and N. would find it difficult to get m.uoh credit in oourt if he were to admit that a man "might be a very good man" and yet lie when "it was necessary to tbo success of bis undertaking and his undertaking was beneficial to the world." 'V'

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H.and N.' "As regards. ve creation, science appoars to have discovered much more than the Bible has revealed."

That is because God did not tell Moses all be knew about creation, therefore He did not tell him any thing. Because men have found out some facts which God did not revesl, therefore God did not reveal anything. Because "Husks and Nubbina" did not contain all the ideas which some interviewer has found that Its professed author entertains about the Bible, therefore he did not write that article. Neither H. and N. nor the Creator can tell anything unless he tells all hs knows.

The only accouuTof ersstioh Which scienos hss not proved to bs utterly and sntirely false is thst given by Moses. Of this EL snd N. says:

It contradids nothing because It deJtme» nothing." Does It not "define" all that It claims to "define," that God created all things Is it not littls rsmarkabls thst ths very order In which science proves that all things were created, is ths ordsr sst down by Moses, who lived snd wrote thousands of yssis before thess sclencss were known? Bs* aides this, if Mosss was msrely gussslng, Is it not strange that hs was aids to employ language such that science cannot contradict It

These area few of ths thoughts which were suggested to T. T. ss hs meditated upon Husks and Nubbins while, with ths old plug and buckboard, hs took his final ride into the country last 8unday, preparatory to giving over said ping to the Episoot. Hs hss It bad.

P. S.—T. T. acknowledges ths politeness of ths lsdies of the Presbyterian church in providing him with complimentary tickets to their Festival, and is sorry that hs was not able to use

-People and Tarings.

A MAN'S A MAN FOR A* THAT. A man's a man," said Robert Burns, For a' that and a' that Bat though the son^ be clear and strong,

It lacks a note fci a' that. The lout who'd shirk bis daily work, Yet claim his wage and a' that

Orbeg, when he might earn his bread, la not a man for a* that.

If all who dine on homely fare Wt re true and brave, and a' that And none whose garb Is "hodden gray,'

Was fool and knave, and a' that Tb vice and crime that shame our time Would fade and fall, and a'that, And plowmen be as good as kings,

And churls as earls, for a'that.

You see you brawny, blustering sot, Who swaggers, swears, and a that. And thinks, because his strong right arm

Might fell an ox and a' that— Tbatne's as noble, man for man, As dnke and lord, and a' that— He's bat a brute, beyond dispute,

And not a man for a' that!

And not his crown, and a' that! And man with man, if rich or poor, The best is he for a' that Who stands erect in self-respect,

And acts the man for a' that! [Charlet Jlackay. In St. Louis policemen are called "pigs."

Douglas Jerrold defines dogmatism as puppyism come to maturity. The members of the Oregon Legislature receive less pay than street laborers."

A correspondent wants to know who that man Sard is that built all the roofs in Boston.

Alfred Wiitz, the newly-elected Mayor of New Orleans, Is a Democrat, a creole, and only 26 years of age.

The Golden Age says that Mr. Colfax has a constitutional predisposition to be the particular friend of everybody.

If you want an enemy put out of tbe way, give him a dollar snd a quarter and send him to Louisville. They kill a man for that amount there.

If there is anything in a name, the successor ot General Mead has the elements of success. Where is there a better name than Mc-Do-well.

Somebody, who writes more truthfolly thsn poetically, ssys: "An sngel without money is not thought so much of now-a-days as a devil with a bag frill of guineas."

Well! we've got her boxed up," was the pathetlo exclamation of a griefstricken husbsnd in Lenox, Massachusetts, lately as be turned away from bis encoffined wife.

A young gentleman in St. Louis leaned over a bar to listen to an explanation of a beautiful new derringer. He is very certain now that the gruel at the hospital is thin.

This company shall never get another cent of my money," said an angry lady on a railway train. "How then will you travel?" asked the conductor. "I'll pay my fare to you."

A man once called on President Lincoln. He had shaken hands with him, observing, "Don't be scared, Mr. Lincoln, I don't want an office." "Is that eo?" said tke Presidept "lhcn give us snotber shake."

A secret society without sny nonsense in it haa been started at Evansville, Ind. It is called the "Society of Permanent Friends," snd the members are sworn to refrain from borrowing money of each other.

The Tidioute (Pa.) Journal gives these "last words" of an oil man: "An oil man dying the other day, called his friend to his bedside snd bade him good-bye in the following words: 'I'm .imn^ down to the third sand. Bob, and the drill is stuck.'"

Some men never lose their presence of mind. In Chicago last week, a man threw bis mother-in law out ot a window in the fifth etory of a burning building, and then carried a feather bed down stairs in his srma.—[Titosvilte Press.

Tbe shooting of O'Nell by King, and the indignation and excitement created thereby, haa mads the prison life of Stokes excessively gloomy. He feus that his new trial is coming ap at an inopportune moment, and that his esse will be treated with lees leniency on account of this late murder.

Joseph Jefferson is still at his home in Hohokus, a manufacturing village in Bergen oouhty, New Jersey, on the Erie Kail way, twenty-five miles from New York. Jefferson's eyes, which were thought to hsveqnite recovered, do not improve, snd some of the oculists who have attended him have very little hops of his getting any better. The medical gentlemen even have fears that the oomedian'a brain is affected, and that be will never bs in a condition warranting his rstin to ths stags.

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A man may own a largeectate, Have palaoe, park, and a' that, And not lor birth, but honest worth,

Be thrice a man for a' that And Donald herding on the mnir, Who beats his wife, and a' that. Be nothing but a rascal boor,

Nor hall a man for a'that. It comes to this, dear Brother Burns— v* Ths truth is old, and a' that—

The rank is but the guinea's stamp— The man's tbe gold for a' that And, though you'd put the minted mark

On copper, brass, and a' that, The lie is gross, tbe cheat is plain, a* And will not pass for a'that.

For a' that and a' that, 'Tis soul, and heart, and a' that, That makes the king a gentleman,

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They have a noiaest woman in Cincinnati. Castilian hals" for ladies' wear are coming into faahion.

Miss Karnell, a Long Island woman, is engaged in exercising herself by a walk to Omaha. -A very precise young lndy speaks of having seen a "yelk" of oxen hitched to a delivery wagon.

Spring beds have found their way to Japan, and Chinese women^ are slmefct persuaded to try the bustle.

There is a graceful Dutch proverb to the effect that a house-full ot daughters is like a cellar frill of sour beer.

Mrs. Rosalie Dousman, who was early connected with Indian missionary work in Michigan, died recently at Shawnee, at 76 years.

One of the surest evidences of good taste in reference to matters of the toilette, is tbe care Ail avoidance of whatever is eccentrio of startling in dress.

An intensely moral San Francisco concert saloon advertises for "good lady to sing," If there is any one want long felt st concert saloons it is good ladies,

An instance of throwing bno's self about was witnessed a few evenings ago at a party, in case of a young lady who, when asked to sing, first tossed her head and then pitched her voice.

A rumor asserts that square dances will be tnoreln favor this Winter than they have been for many years. Young married ladies are said to have been instrumental in bringing about tbis social reform.

Mrs. Peters, of Laurel Run, Pennsylvania, put hor ear out of a car window to listen for an approaching bridge, and the tattered remnants of that ear now flutter as a warning signal from one of Us spans.

A Lady juror in Wyoming was so anxious to sit on a jury, that she gave her twins laudanum to quiet them, and succeeded so well that several other females will get a job of sitting on tbe babes at a coroner's inquest.

Laura Ream, a young female journalist of Indianapolis, is a prominent candidate for State Librarian in Indiana. Miss Resm Is very strong mindedstrong enough, in fact, to resist and denounce the clamor of some of her sisters for female suffrage.—[Chicago Times.

Anew danger threatens society. An eminent French chemist announces that many of the new evening silks are covered with plcrate of lead, and are therefore liable to a tremendous explosion at any moment. It would be a terrible thing, while waltzing with a lady, to have ber suddonly blow up.

A Louisville hotel keeper has just mulcted In a considerable sum for turning a young lady traveler away from his hotel because she was unaccompanlcd by a gentleman. Tho young lady, whose character was proved to be above reproach, Inoeased at the result, brought suit, with the result above natped.

An observant editor out in Washienaw county, Mich., is constrained to make this observation: "It is disgusting to see young girls parading tbe streets of a modest and unassuming little country village like Tecumneh or Manchester, with a tucknpbehindwiggledamphooliklveness lsrger than they are."

A young lady In New York, has besutlful gilt and velvet frame for imperial photographs. When a gentleman friend calls, she invariably brings down tbis frame with his photograph in tt, snd when snotber gentleman calls shs pats bis photograph in tbe same frame and brings it down. She is a very poetic young lady, and ot course, alwsys hss lots of invitstlons to tbe opera and sich.

Mrs. Augusta M. Rodgers, of Brooklyn, hss In less than four years received letters patent from our Government for as msny ss four different inventions: mosquito csnopy, a folding chair, a plan for heating cars without fire, and an Improvement in spark arresters (to be applied to locomotives.) The first two are also to-day protected 'by the great seal of England.

A Miss, over whose head old lime had spilled the frost of forty winters, arrived In Louisville yesterday for tbe purpose of purchasing "one of them 'ere sewing machines that has a feller and tucker attachment." The dame visited

Fourth street agency, and there learned from the handsome young man who win, the show that the machine hia house so Id was complete in all respects. Tbe bargain was made, money paid, and arrangements completed for the delivery of tbe purchase, when the thoughtful customer broke in with, "Well, about tbe 'feller*—will be be sent with tbe machine, or must I take him with met" The sppllcstion of two pails full of water revived tha wilted

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Connubialities.

TOGETHER.

Rest we, dearest. In our home, Roam we o'er the heather We shall rest and we shall ruam—

Shall we not f—together.

From this hour the summer rose Sweeter breathes to charm us s. From this hour the winter bnows

Lighter Ml to harm us.

Fair or foul—on land or seaCome the wind or weather, Best and worse, what 'ere tliey b®,

We will share together. Mrs. Oates has been married to Mt4 Titus, the manager of her troupe.

The husband who devoured his wife with kisses fonnd afterward tkat she disagreed with him.

A dapper-looking apothecary's clerk? in Washington has succeeded In marrying a fortune of $2,000,000 and a charming young widow, and now he has gone West to spend It.

A new enemy to marriage—who, we fear, will be more dangerous than club bousss or cxtravagaat young ladieshas appeared. He has invented a button that cau be put on with a screwdriver.

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Mr. Ebert, of Sullivan, Ind., loved Miss Weil, of Evansville, so n(uch that he bade farewell to his Christianity, became a Hebrew, aud took the captive-1 ting Jewess for weul or woe. S

A young woman in Ohio wroto 'to Nast last summer, proposing marriagO| Thomas replied by sending hor a cartoon of Mrs. Nast and tho children, labeled "The Only Objection." Mr. NusC himself is the author of this littlo story^

The marriage epidemic which, like the horse disease, has spread all over tbe country, rages 'even in the departments at Washington. Nearly every room in the State, Treasury and other departments has several prospective brides.

Occasionally, when the train arrivus at Middletown, Ct., a nice young man jumps off and kisses the best-looking girl at tbe depot, supposing her to be his sister. He apologizes so nioely that that the girls are getting so that thqy look for him regularly.)

Two Detroit sisters ran away and gd£ married the other night. When they returned to paotfy their papa, their found thoold CPnt.1«•»*•i«» o«»«k oim6m of hilarity at tbe removal of the burden: of their milliner's bill tbut tbo newly made husbands became painfully sad.

A dancing master with an eye to baseness has introduced for the seasons quadrille called the "Kiss Quadrille," in which tbe gentlemen kiss the ladies as they "swing tho corners." Tbo young people of tbis city aro anxiously Inquiring whetbor or not this dance will be tbe style here this winter.

A Lafayette man spent three-T[uartcr» of an hour the other evening in trying to pick up a piece of moonshine ftsn his doorstep which ho fondly fancied (is be a newspapor. His afflicted wiis finally came out, brought him tooo»soiousness by the aid of a loose featm picket, and steadied bis tottering steps into tbe house.

A Louisville man who had only bee* acquainted with his girl two nights «l~ tempted to kiss her at the gate. In his dying deposition he told the dodnoi that Just as he "kissed ber tbe eaitfc slid out from under bis feot, and ban soul wont out of his mouth, wttfle Us bead touched the stars." iter dispatches show that what ailed him was th* old man's boots.

B. P. Cheeney, of Pine island, Michigan, who lost his wife few weeks since, and recently became insane^ no better.' He refuses to est or driafc for several days at a time, and sleeps out in tbe open sir. He baa a sheet. ironJxx that he had made for that perpoee, that he gets under snd says to can commune with tho spirit of hie wife. ., „,,

A young man was sent out by prominent oil firm In this city week or so ago to drum in tbe Interior osw^try. This young man is ssdly in snd carries in bis right bsnd loons pocket the photograph off Mn sweetbesrt, which he sometimes takes out to look st. Heslso carries other cards, those of tbe firm. Tbe other top be dropped in st tbe store of merchant In Frederick, snd inqoired if the IslVsr wished to raske sny purchases, st Urn me time throwing down esnt upon ths oounter, snd saying: "Thess is tbe firm I represent." AbT" .tmM the mercbsnt, taking up tbe card, smiling ss be did so. "Yes," said tim young msn: "I've been in thst first for sbout three years. Xnd Pve si way* found It reliable and prompt." "I •oppose you'll soon be a partner iu ibM. firm," said tbe merchant, scarcely afck to restrain bis laughter. Yes,'" plied tbe young man modestly: "I 'asm hopes that way." Tbe merchant thaw burst into a fit of laughter and roaced "I think 111 buy of thst firm sltogeefrer!" at tbe same time showing tkm young msn bis card—it was tbe UUt photograph! The young man wiltvd, and thinks hs won't wear fiuweVwn cards in the same pocket any nwss