Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 3, Number 45, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 May 1873 — Page 4

PISS®:

Wife is a-goln to die," «ld ne.

Doctors great, ail' doctor* small, Haven't Unproved her any at all. Phytic and b'.ister, powders and pills, And nothing sure but lie doctors bills.

Twenty old women, with remedies new, Either my wife Hie whole day through,

Sweet as honey, or bitter as gallPoor old woman, she takes eui a»l

Hour or sweet, whatever they choose, Poor old woqihii, fche clnicu refuse.

Bo she pleases whoe'er may call,

Aii' IeatU i* 1 the beat of all. Physic and blistir. powder an' pill— jund to conquer, uu' sure to Khl. in. Mrs. Rogers lay In her bed, Bandaged and mistered from foot to nead. mistered and bandaged from head to toe, Mrs. Rogers wiw veiy low. Bottle and saucer, spoon and cup, On the table stood bravely up Physics of high and low degree Calomel, catnip, boneset tea Everything a body could bear Excepting light and water and air.

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FAB MECOPlXIA.

Latest In the series of the Detroit Tri

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very characteristic "Farm Ballr.ds" 1$ thi« autograph of the medical country practitioner upon the assumed professional wtMlom of some folks:

THK DOCTOR LOQCITOIt.

Good

folk* ever will Lave tfcelr wayGood loiks ever for it niu-t pay. Bat we, who ad here ami everywhere, The burden of their ran its must bear. We must shouliW-r others' nhame— Fight uielr foillw* and take their blaniu

l'arge the body, ami humor the mlud: Doctor the eyes tk uen the soul Is blind

Baild the column of health e*ect Oa the qulcksauits of neglcct

Always shouldering others' shanie— Bearing their faults ana taking the blame! II. Deacon Rogers, h9 ratne lo me

IV.

1 opened the blinds the day was bright, Aud God gave Mrs. Rogers some light.

I opened the window the day was fair, And God gave Mrs. Rogers some air. Jlottles and blisters, powders and pills, Catnip, boneset, syrups ar.d squills

Drugs and medicines, high and low, I threw them as lur us I could throw. What are you dolus my patient cried

Frightening Death," I coolly replied.

You are cra/.y a visitor said, I llung a bottie at her head.

Deacon Rogers, he came to me Wife is a-cotnin' around," said he.

I ro'lly think she will worry through Hhe scolds me Just as she used to do.

All the people have poohed an* slurred— All the neighbors have had tlielr word

'Twas better to perish, some of 'em say, Than be cured in such an Irregular way." VI.

Your wife," said I, '"had God's good care. And Ills remedies—light and water and air.

All of the doctors, beyond a doubt, Could not have cured Mrs. Rogers without. VII. The Doacon smll'-d and bowed his head

Then your bill is nothing," he said.

God's be the glory, as you Bay God blessyoy, Doctor! good day! good day

YIII

If ever 1 doctor that woman attain, l'U'Klve her medicines made by men. (—W. M. CABLETON.

[From Cassell's Magazine, (London.)

'Twixt Cup and Lip.

Ono hot July evening in 179-1 most of the little tjibles outside of the Cafe du Midi, in the curious little town of Nlsmes, woro occupied by customers who seetnod to be very much of one way of thinking, and that way not the popular one lor the languago bold was of a character bold indeod, aud rarely beard in those days of Terror, when a careless word reported In oftlcial quarters was gcod for the uttoror's head.

What is the news?" asked a young man, who wore his own hair long, falling to the shoulders, approaching a group apparently absorbed In a collection of newspapers lying before them, from which first one and then another would read an extract. Sometimes two quidnuncs broko into quotations simultaneously and then It was more difficult to ioflow tbem when it so hapneuod that three were retailing tit-bits all together, It became well-nigh impossible to make out what any one individual was readiHg about but as all wan tod to declaim and none to liston, that mattered little.

The new-comor, however, had a

title

wish to hoar, aud was therefore hilled with delight. What is the news?" "(iood uows!"—"Capital news!"— "Might luivo been better." "The wolves continue to tear ono another." "Well, but be dellnlte, some one, please," said the last arrived.

Merely an attempt to reach Robosplerro and Collot d'llerbols with the d#ggor, which has failed," replied the one who was tho quickest with his

*5"?$utthe vest may succced," cried Another pistol will uot always miss tire, like those of Lsdmiral."

But will not these futile attompts revlvo tho popularity of tho wretches? The poiniard of Charlotte Corday dellied Marat."

That wasdlflerent Charlotte aveng©1 humanity, but it is the enemies of the human race who have new turned upon one another." "Hist! Parle* baa?"

Tb© warning voice came fro ma grayheaded. man who had hitherto listened in silence, and, as the caution ran from table to table, conversation was bushed, attd all eyes were turned toward an approaching figure, whose as poet was cerlinly somewhat sinister.

Ho was a short, thick-set man, with square powerful shoulders, remarkably long nruis and bow-legs. 1I» broad-brimmod hat was sloncbed forward on his

close-cfoppM

head, and

tb® low«-r part of his face was enveloped In a largo handkerchief, which one would Imagine must have been worn fjr disguise rather than protection from the airon that warm evening. As he aivauced along the street, ho had A trick of glancing to right and left with a quick motion of his small gray eyes, which by no means rendered his aspect mono reassuring. Oa approaching the c*fe he hesitated, as though debating if he should out- and order some refreshment but whether the company aueutbled were not to his taste, or for some other rv.«on, he od on, and sr» •up. mm*of tfcn rTron* atrrrts do.•t.'u.Og

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t!l«Ci"-i-

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cafe was situated. "Wh V% he?" tfcosam* man vrhoba-l reviou-' t'Wlth-1 new# of the v.

W of on

vention? The man who organised llobespierre's bodyguard of assassins? "The same I remember him well he is a native of Nlsmes, being the son of a respectable manufacturer here. Carried on the business for some tlrno after the old man'sdeath, but about six vears ago, shortly before the trouojef*, lie sold everything and went to 1 arls.

Ah, I recollect," said a bvstander "he demanded the hand of Mademoiselle de Montreval, and the proud old Iiaran had him kicked out of the bouse bv his servants. He left vowing enhance, and I wonder that l.e hasi not taken it. tor they say be has terrible in-

"fypngeance!" cried another "be has wreaked it sufficiently on the class, If he has spared the individual, a paralyzed old man whose life ia a burden to iiiin. And then, if he has generously left tho bead of the girl, who could not love bis ugliness, on her shoulders, he has at least done his best to blight her life by denouncing poor Henrv Kiquet, her betrothed, who only saved himself by taking refuge in England, and leaving his estates to be confiscated. Bosides, who knows what be has come back hero lor

Ko good, I fear I almost wonder why De Montreval and bis charming daughter did not emigrate too."

The old man was too intirm to travel, and Mademoiselle would not leave

Meanwhile the principal object of this conversation continued his way through the streets till be camo to the house of the Mavor, which he entered and was reeeiveil with great show of cordia'ity. "Welcome, Citizen Lenoir." said the functionary, a lean, wizen-faced man with timid*eyes and a cringing manner, "welcome once more to the town which has the honor of being the place where so illustrious a patriot first saw the light."

I do not care for compliments, Citizen Mayor you have the letter?" "Certainly and your boxes, too, have arrived."

Any

dispatches?"

Yes, several, I bav© had all t&lcen to your room." Ah, my room. Let me see it, if you

^Tife Mayor bad appropriated the best chamber in his house for the reception of the guest be honored—or feared—so much. But Lenoir was dissatisfied, and, after going over the whole establishment, selected a disused room over the stables for his residence during his stay. "Such a miserable, melancholy hole!" remonstrated the Mayor.

Never mind that," replied Lenoir, "it suits me. I can go in and out and receive whom I like there without observation. So just send inv packages and dispatches in there, together with a table and couch of souoe sort, an^d writing material if you please, and then give me the key of the door."

It shall bo as you wish, Citizen Lenoir. And now you will take something: you must be iaint after your longjouruey from—where did you say you had made your last stay?" "Isaid nothing about it. Anything will do for me—a crust of dry bread and a glass of wine—Spartan fare. I loathe your aristocratic banquets."

In spite of which sentiment the frugal democrat demolished a fowl, and made a considerable bole in the pate de foie gras, washing the same down with a bottle of excellent Pommard.

When he had finished, he threw his napkin on the table, and said to bis host: "The committee is not satisfied with you, Citizen Mayor."

Indeed stammered the poor man, turning white, "and yet in what can I hatfe offended

You show a lack of zeal, AOW, for Instance, that abominable aristocrat, Riquet, has returned to this department, and you have not arrested him." "Riquet! what, the emigree! It is hardly possible. Pardon me, but are you sure? It seems incredible that my agents should not have recognized him." "Oh, of course he is disguised," replied Lenoir, "but my information is correct enough—only I ought to have received it through you. He is watched, and cannot escape yet for old acquaintance sake I wish to afford you the chance of regaining the confidence whieh has been weakened. I will therefore give you the requisite information by which you

may

room, for

bona

have him ar

rested without my name appearing in it. I will allow the credit to you—no, you need not thank me, I have plenty to spare. And now I will go to mv

I have a hard night's work

before me. If any messenger asks for me, or any dispatches arrive, let me know at once."

The Mayor, when left alone, groaned. "Poor Riquet," he said to hlmself."bow could be be so mad as to eomo back Hut I must go ou now, and do Lenoir's bidding. My own bead depends on it."

On the third evening from this, Julie de Montreval was sitting alone, endeavoring to fix her attention on the book in her hand, when the old servant who remained faithful to them in all their present troubles announced a stranger, and presently Lenoir entered. She could not repress a shudder at the first sight of him, but mastered her feelings almost instantaneously, and asked his business.

I have come to renew my ormer proposal," he replied "stop, do not speak till you have heard me out. I am no longer in the humble position in which you knew me I am powerful, and shall be far raoro so speedily, for

fshall

reat eveuts are about to happen, and rise with them. You are prejudiced against me, I know, yet you owe gratitude. It was through my influence alone that you and your father have been left unmolested the last five years, and whether I had cause to exert that Influence in your behalf or against you, you know owt, Whether I continue to do so depends entirely on yourself. I have been sent down on a mission which has for its principal object the purging of this department from certain notorious enemies of theRepublic the name of De Montreval is in the list of the prescribed, and I warn you plainly that I will no longer incur the risk of protecting von without reward. Ono word more: Henri Riquet has returned to France, so that his life is als« in tho balance—If you care anvthing about him still. Well, you kWw my terms, they are simple. Be my wife, and you and yours are safe refuse, and you all perish. Do not reply to me take forty-eight hours to txmaider at the end of that time I will call for my

He had hardly finished these words before Julie's brain swam round, and «he fainted. When she recovered consciousness he was gone.

At first she *1* that she could never

bring

herself to make the hateful sacrifice demanded of her, but terror did its work, and when Lenoir camo again she promiaed whatever he stipulated for.

A week elapsed and Lenoir was still at Nismes: he sat on his bed in tho dingy little room over the Mayors stable, which he had appropriated, with a book in his hand, a manuscript bcok,

TkkUK-HAUl'E iSA'l'UKDAX EVKN1NO MAll., MAY 10, 1873.

the letters of which should have been written in blood.

At las»t." he murmured, laying the volume on the table—"at last I who was spurned, from her father's door, I shall be her husband and master Everything succeeds with me and presently, when Robespierre is Dictator, what may I not rise to? I have made myself necessary to him, and he will not be able to neglect me I have taken cnreofthat! And does she think, poor fo«l, that I shall spare my rival? But my timid friend, the Mayor, will bear the blame of that business It is strange, though, that the dispatches do not come from Paris five days after the time specified! Can anything wrong have happened? Ah! no doubt they have arrivedhe add^d, as some one* knocked at his door.

He rose and opened it, and received, not indeed the papers he expected, but a file of Paris journals.

He took them, locked tho door and returned to his seat on tho bed. Tho first words be read struck biin like a thunderbolt. "Defeat of the Conspiracy against the Convention Arn-st of Robespierre, Saint Just, Couthon Sulcido or Lebas."

Then further on tho wholo horrible storv the shattered jaw—the t-tate of the drunken Ilenriot when taken. In a later paper there was au account of the final scene, which cut otf all hope of retrieval. Robespierre was dead

Turning over the journals after realizing this great fact, in a stunned and instinctive manner, Lenoir came upon a list of names which once lxore stimulated his attention—a list such as he had bixiself often prepared, of men doomed to the knife, and—his own name was there!

The One Dollar Bill.

How it did rain thdr November

Might!

None of your undecided show

ers, with hesitating intervals, as it were between none of your mild, persistent patterings on the roof, but a regular tempest, a wild deluge, a rush of arrowy drops and a thundering of opening floods.

Squire Partlet heard the angry rattle against the casements, aud drew his snug easy-chair a littlp closer to the fire—a great open mass of glimmering anthracite—and gazed with a sort ol sleepy reflective satisfaction at the crimson moreen curtains, and the gray cat fast asleep ou the hearth, and the canary bird rolled Into a drowsy ball of yellow down on its perch. "This is snug," quoth tho squire.

I'm glad I had that leaky spot fixed in the Darn roof last week. I don't object to a stormy night once in a while, when a fellow's under cover, and there's nothing particular to be done. Mary!"

Yes," Mrs. Partlet answered. She was flitting about between kitchen and sitting-room with a blue-check apron tied around her waist. "I'm nearly ready to com® in now, Josiah. Now I wonder," sotto vooe, "if that was really a knock at the door, or just a little rush of the wind and rain

She went to the door nevertheless and a minute or two afterwards she went to her husband's chair. "Joe. dear, it's Luke Ruddilove," she said, half apprehensively. The Squire never looked up froir. his paper.

Tell him he's made a mistake. The tavern is ou the corner beyond." But he wants to know if you will lend him a dollar!" said Mrs. Partlet.

And couldn't you have told him no, without the preliminary ceremony of coming in here to ask me? Is it likely that I shall lend a dollar or even a cent to Luke Ruddilove Why, I had a great deal better throw it among yonder red coals! No—of course no!'

Mrs. Partlet hesitated. Ho looks so pinched and cold and wretched, Josiah. He says there nobody in the world to let him have a cent."

All the better for him, if he did but know it,'' sharply enunciated the squire. "If it had come to that pitch half-a-dozen years ago, perhap he wouldn't have been the miserable^man he is now." "We used to go to school together," said Mri. Partlet, gently. "He was the smartest boy in the class." "That's probable enough," said the squire. "But it don't alter the fact that he's a poor drunken wretch now Send him about his business, Polly, and if his time is of any consequence, just let him know that he had better not waste It by coming here after dollars."

And the squire leaned back in his chair after a positive fashion, as if the whole matter was definitely deolded.

Mrs. Partlet went back to the kitchen where Luke Ruddilove was spreading his tattered garments steaming as if he were a pillar of vapor.

He won't let you nave it, Luke," said she "I thought he wouldn't." "Then I've got to starve, line any other dog!" said Luke Ruddilove, turning away moodily. "And, after all, I don't suppose It makes much difference whether I shuffle out of the world to-day or to-morrow."

O, Luke, not to your wife "She'd be better off without me," said Luko, down-heartedly.

But she ought not to be." Out and Is are two different things, Mrs. Partlet. Good-night. I ain'fgoing to the tavern, though I'll wager something the squire thought I was." "And isn't it natural enaugh be should think so, Luke?"

Yes-yes, Mary, I don't say but what it is," murmured Luke Ruddilove, in the same dejected tone he had ased throughout the interview. "Stay!" Mrs. Partlet called to him, as his hand lay on the door-latch, in a low voico. "Here's a dollar, Luke, Mr. Partlet gave to me for a new piece of oil-cloth to put in front of the dining room stove, but I'll try and make tb old one do a little while longor. And, Luke, tor the sake of old times—for the sake of your poor wife, will you do better?"

Luke Ruddilove looked vacantly first at the fresh new bank bill In his hand, aud then at the blooming matron who placed it there. "Thank yon, Mary," he said, and crept out or *he warm, bright kitchen into the storm and darknessthat reigned without. Mrs. Partlet stood looking into the kitchen fire.

I dare say I've done a very /polish thing," she pondered "but indeed I could not help it. Of coarse he'll upend it all at the public boose, and I suali do without nay oil-cloth, and that will be the end of it all."

And there was a conscious flash ©n her cheek, as if she had done something wrong, when sho rejoined the squire in tho sitting-room.

Weil," said Squire Partlett, "has that ne'er-do-well gone at last?" Yes." "To Stokes' tavern, I suppose?"-

I hope not, Josiah." "I'm afraid it's past hoping for," said the squire, shrugging his shoulders. "And now for a pleasant evening, How it does rain, to be sore."

And Mrs. Partlet kept the secret of the dollar bill within her own heart. It was six months afterward that the squire oame into the room where hia wife was preserving some great red apples into jelly. "Well, well," quoth he, "wonders never ctase. The Ruddilove* have gone away. "Uone where?" "1 don't kuow—out West somewhere with a colony. And they say Luke liwsn't touched a drop iu six months." "I uui glad of that," said Mrs. Partlet,

It won't last, long," said the squire, despairingly. Why not?"

O, I don't know. I haven't any faith in these sudden reforais." Mrs. Partlet, was silent she thought thankfully that aRer all Luke had not spent the dollar in liquor.

Six months—six years—the time sped along in days and weeks, almost before busy littlo Mrs. Partlet knew it was gone. The Ruddiloves had gone back to Sequisset.

Luke had made his fortune, as the story went, in the far-away El Dorado vaguely phrasod "Out West," by the simple Sequosseters. "They do say," said Mrs. Buckingbam, "that he bought that ere lot down opposite the Court House, and is going to build such a house on it as never was."

He must have prospered greatly," said the gentle Mrs. Partlet. "And his wife wears a silk goun that will stand alone with its own richness," said Mrs. Buokingham "I can remember when Luke Ruddilove was nothing but a poor drunken creature."

All the more credit to him now," said Mrs. Partlett, emphatically. It's to be all o' stun," said Mrs. Buckingham, "with marble mantles and inlaid floors. Aud he's put a lot of papers aud things under the corner one."

The corner what?" said Mrs. Partlet, laughing—"floor or mantel?" "Stun, to be sure," said Mrs. Buckingham. "Like they do in public buildings, you know."

"That is natural enough." "Well, it's kind o' queer, but Luke Ruddilove never was like nobody else. Folks think it's dreadful strange he should put a one dollar bill in with the other things."

Mrs. Partlet felt her cheeks flush scarlet she glanced up to where the squire was checking off a list of legal items in the bill he was making out against some client. But he never looked around, and Mrs. Buckingham went on with her never-ceasing flow of chit-chat, and so the color died away on her cheek. After all, the money had been her own to give, and the old oilcloth in front of the dining-room stove had answered very well.

She met Luke Ruddilove that afternoon for the first time since bis return to Sequosset—Luko himself, yet not himself—the demon Intemperance crushed out of bis nature, and Its better. nobler elements triumphing at last.

He looked her brightly in thefaoe, as he held out his hand. Mary."

I am glad to see you back here again, Luke," she said, tremulously. "And well yon may be," he rejoined.

Do you remember the night you gave me the dollar bill, aud begged me not to go to the tavern?"

Yes." That night was the pivot on which my whole destiny turned. You were kind to me when every one spoke coldly you trusted me when every other face was averted. I vowed a vow to myself to prove worthy of your confidence, and I kept it. I did not spend the money—I treasured it up—and Heaven has added mightily to my little store. I put the dollar bill under the corner-stone of my new bouse, for the

house

has risen from it, and it alone.

I won't offer to pay you back, for I am afraid," he added, smiling, "the luck would go from me with it but I'll tell you what I will do, Mary I will give money and words of trust and encouragement to some other poor wretch, as you gave to me.

OUR GREAT SCOURGE. Consumption is tke great scourge of the country. It will surprise many to rea& the records of this terrible disease as contained in the second volume of the census, and to trace the lines on the maps accompanying the report which mark its existence In its more or less virulent type. Out of the 432, 263 deaths in 1870, 69,887 were from consumption. There are comparatively few sections of the country that are free from the disease. A few counties in West Virginia, the Florida peninsula, and a portion of Georgia exhibit a freedom from it, or raihef iwtsm cases originating there. There is also a smalt section of county in Central New York that is well nigh free from it. Minnesota and California, with the exception ot a strip of country north and south of a Sacrao»eota and around San Francisco, c«T\ be pot downa as well nigh exempt from th£ temble scourge, t)ut there are few of other amotions of the country w-fcwK) tho di$ea»e does not figure the mortality list pears to be the -.rdreaded by consumptives, the deaths from this cause there boing one in ten of those from all diseases.

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CUTTING DOWN.

A quaint Scotch minister was given somewhat to exaggerating in tho pulpit. His clerk reminded him of its ill effects upon the congregation. He replied that he was not aware of it, and wishtd the clerk, the next time he did It to give a oough by way of bint. Soon after ne was describing Samson's tying the foxes' tails together. He said:

The foxes in those days wero much larger than ours, and they had tails

Ahem!" came from the clerk's desk. That Is," continued the preacher, "according to their measurement but by oars, they were fifteen fut long."

Ahem 1" louder than before. But as you may think this la extravagant, we'll just say they were ten fut." "Ahem 1 Ahem 1" still more vigorous.

Tho parson leaned over the pulpit, and shaking his finger at the clerk, said: •'You may cough there allthenicht long, mon 111 nae take off a fut more. Would ye ha& the foxes wld ua3 tails a

Ax Irishman had a dream which taught him the danger of delay. "I dreamed," said he, "I was wld the pope who was as great a jlntleman as and one in the district an'he axed me way I drink Think* I, wad a dock swim: seein' the Innishowen, and lemons^nd sugar on the sideboard, I said I didn't care if I tuk a wee a rap of pnnch." "Could or hot t" axed the pope. "Hot, your holiness," I replied, and bo that be stepped down to the kitchen for the bilin' water. btR before he got back I woke atralgbt up. And now It's a distressing me I didn't take it could!"

AMONG THE CLOUDS. v.-

Ocean Ballooning—The Wonders of A a N a vi at on

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A Harrisburg correspondent of the World writes: A few days ago I witnessed the JEronaut Donaldson dangling from a trapezs bar by the toes, when suspended from a balloon some 1,500 feet in the air. I surmised that the man had a history, and the following strange statement from the teronaul's own lips will repay perusal. He said he had made but one ascension with a basket, and that was his first and last in that manner. The first time he had witnessed a balloon in mid-air he delighted in the thought of performing on the trapeze bar under it. In reply to a question concerning fear he smiled and stated he was not acquainted with it. "If I had known what fear was," he continued, "I should never have bad sufficient courage to perform for the first time the drop-act." He had reference to lying on his back on the bar, head and feet extended, and then to drop head first and catch himself by tho toes, and in this position, hanging bond downward, sail through the air hundreds of feet above tbe earth. "For," he continued, "it must be borne in mind, that in performing the act, my weight, ISO pounds, is taken from the balloon from tho time I drop until I catch myselt by my feet. Taking off this weight from the balloon naturally causes it to shoot up with great velocity, and therein is the great danger. The balloon rises with force when.no weight is attached, and if care is not practiced, the bar will shoot up and be very apt to sweep past any obstructions like a man's feot, and thus throw him from the bar and send him tumbling headlong toward the earth. Befora I tried the experiment I had no moans of ascertaining what the results would be, but as I bad no fear as to tbe consequences I went up and successfully performed what no other man in the world has yot done." After the aeronaut is above the clouds be takes down his clothes that hang suspended from the ring, and standing upon the bar, over a mile high, proceeds to dress himself. He has thus performed journeys of 100 miles in length. I asked him why be was engaged in such reckless and dangerous business, and be told me that at first he did it in a professional way as a matter of business, to advertise bis entertainments as a magician, finally inaugurating a system of lectures. He would make an ascension and afterwards tell the story of his ajrial journev from tbe stage in some hall, to an audleuoe at so much a head.

Now he states he desires to aid science. In a few days he will ascend in a paper balloon, glued together, for the reason, as he says, to satisfaetorily demonstrate to men of science the entire safety of ballooning in tbe original manner. "Men of science," said the seronaut, "can not lie induced to visit cloudland, and as long as they remain away the vast resources of that undiscovered country will remain idle and useless forever/' I lound this daring man also a thinking and a careful man. He complained at length of the unwise expenditure of money in examining ocean beds and tbe like, when a great natural highway in the air needea immediate attention. He disapproves of tbe present method of generating steam, because tbe weight of machinery is too great for the power received. Air contains all that is required—moisture from which steam can be generated.

and 'hese

a'gencies in the air can be gath

ered as they are needed, thereby averting tbe necessity of carrying fuel, etc, as is at present the custom with steamships and locomotives. He says these things are all lying idle, and waiting the visitation of practical scientists to examine and put them into use. He continued: "I would perfect and patent a flying machine, but have not tbe time. People are afraid of higbt^ but seemingly, nqfc of depth. They cross the ocean, brave water, stoim and drunken sea captains, but they would shrink in holy horror at the thought of crossing the ocean in a balloon." This led the conversation to tbe subject of ocean ballooning. Donaldson has bis plans, specifications and arrangements allfinisW session Henry, Washington, and other prominent scl entific men. Donaldson Is positive of reaching Europe by balloon, and as firmly oelieves that tbe constantly blowing current of air from west to east, at an altitude of something less than a mile high, was specially created by Providence for serial navigation. 1 asked him why he did not proceed and build his airship accordingto his plans, and he frankly told mo he had been promised tbe funds to carry out his project, but tbe parties had failed to do as tbey had agreed. "And now," said Donaldson, "I intend to rely upon no one, and hence am engaged in tbia per lions business—for certainly it is dan gerous, whether I consider ft so or not

In drder to raise a sufficient amount of money to carry out my plans. I shall need $2,500 to construct my balloon as I desire to and fit it out for tbe trip. I could get up a balloon lor $500 that I think would take me across, but I don't wish to risk anything. I desire to provide for a month's trip—to take with me a sufficient amount of gas, ballast, and provisions that will take me around the world if It is neoessary.

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ble,

A YOUNO pi.ii, a stranger, who at* tempted to leap upon ferry-boat at Detroit recently, fell short and disappeared In the briny deep. He found a life-preserver at hand as he rose, and was drawa out. He lay like a rag for a while, but finally stooa up and looked around. The Qfbwd was Mlb to do anything for- him, tiki finely one of them asked: "Can we do anything for you?" The man looked around, shlv? ered, and then gazing at his boots, replied: "Yes Just one thing. I wish you'd get a boy to black my boots."

The Markets.

Tfe T&

TERRE-HATTT

FLOUIt—Fancy brands FRUIT—Green Apples.. Dried

tEMall

PLOW

and any plow can

has a cast

iteel mel4-board. All other plows of same price have German ftteei molds.

TUT. Strut* ATTACHUKSTM

works splendidly In

SAY

II II

put on II „o

It. Why walk wlien you can|| YI»1|J ride?

Xbe idea of genuine cast steel In a cheap plow Is new. The Jones Plow ts the only one that I has it.

Iffl

980

Jones 1 Jones, east side of the SOD are, Terre-Haute. are proprietors of The Jones Plow. Look for the brand on tbe beam.

The Jones Plow is the JaUiif. The Jones Plow Is the hardestThe Jones Plow is tbe lightest. The Jones Plow is the cheapest.

m*°piJvfes.'U

', May 8.

The following figures are paid to farmers and others by dealers in this city: BEESWAX—Yellow.... 5 25@ BUTTER—Best 20® CORN MEAL 50 EGOS—Fresh FEATHERS—Live Geese

Old

25@ 8 50

Dried Peaches.

GRAIN—Corn, new Oats, new. Rye, new

White wheat Alabama. Mediterranean ...

GINSENG GREASE—Brown HAY—Per ton HIDES-Green trimmed.

....JS

Salted 8^® Dry salted H# Dry flint "Sheepskins

TALLOW PROVISIONS—Hams. Sides.

I Shoulders. MESS PORK-Per bbl 14 LAUD—Country 8® POTATOES 70f POULTRY—Turkeys, alive per ft. Ore dressed 10fi

Ducks per dozen 2 G0j

«. Geese S 50 Chic'ns, old, perdos. 3 00ji dressed 8 25$ SEEDS—Flax 1 45

Clover t®

RAGS—Cotton Sffl WOOL—Tub-washed 40® Fleece 8S@

Unwashed 25a

rp HE

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SATURDAY ETMOO

MAIL,

For the Year 1873.

|.K

REOVLAR RATES.

The SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

IllMtVU VV SUUSVUMVIO T» Tear ONE DOLLAR for Six Mouths, an FIFTY GENTS for Three Months, and Clubs at the following rates: Three Copies, One Year 5 00

vivo 8 00 Tan 15 00 Twenty 25 00

With OnetJopy extra to the getter up ot a Club of Ten. or more. Mall and office Subscriptions will, invariably, be discontinued a* expiration of time paid for.

CLCBBIKfO WITH OTHER PERI* OBIVALS. We are enabled to offer extraordinary inducements In the way of olubblng with oth-( er periodicals. We will furnish the SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, PRICE 12.00 PER YEAR, with any of the periodicals enumerated below at greatly reduced rates. These periodicals will be sent direct from the offices of publication. Here is the list:

SEMI-WEEKLY. I

The Mall and Semi-Weekly If, Y. Tribune, *rlce, S3.00 00

WEEKLY PAPERS.

Mall and the Indianapolis Jour* nal, price 12.00 The Mail and the Indianapolis Sentinel, price 12.00 The Mall and the IV* T, TrtlMStae, price tt.00 The Mall and the

83 00

8 00'

8 00

Indianapolis

Newit. price tl^O The Mall and the Toledo Blade,

2 If 8 3 00 2 50

The Mailand"the W. Y. Warld,price

The Mail and the JT. Y. Snn, price 81.00 The Mall and the Prairie Farmer, »rlce 12.00 eMail and the Western Rural, rlce 82450

3 00

800

Mall and the Chicago Advance, rlce S8.00 Mall and the Chlea** Interior, irice $150 and the Cblcaffo Republican, price 1.50 The Mall and Appleton'a Journal, •rice 14.00

8 I 2 7 4 50 8 75 8 75

Mail and the Rural New Yorkrice t8.00

The Mall and Hearth and Home, •rice 88.00 ... Mail and the Hethodlst, price 82.50 The Mall and Every Saturday, irlce 85.00 .....................

t£

8 00

550

500

Mall and Harper's Weekly, price 84.00 Tho Mail and Harper's Baaar, price 84.00

MONTHLIES.

The Mall and Peterson's Magasine, price 82.00....~ t3 00 The Mail and the American Atf-1-cultnrlst, prico 81J50.. 2 50 The Mail and Demorost's Month|y, price 83,00.1 year 8 60 |»The Mall and Oodey's Lady's Book, rlce 88.00 4 00 ue Mall and the Nortb Western

t£ prinva 9 |»»*w The Mall and the Little Corporal, irioe 81.50,

Farmer, price 81.50 2 50 iaAL

prioe

81.50

8 00

The Mail and the Little Chief,"prlfce 75cents. 2 25 The Mall and the LI tile Sower Jprice 75 cents.

The Mail and Scrlbner's Montlfly, rloe, 84.00

t£

The Mall and »nr Young Folks,

?he

price

82.00

The Mall and Harper'sHa«a*lne, price The Mall and Youn* Folks Rurat......—

sod

or stub-

je Mall and the Atlantic Mantbly, price

84.00.

«0

M&ll and Old and Mew, prlcc

84. 4

be Mail and Overland Hontbly, price,

81.00

A SPLEWDID CHAMCE. We will send The Mail and Demorcst MonthIy?wh!ch 1*83 for one year, to asy ^«noK«OTo^S^ stands Arlval.d

Smily raa*arine. Its choice literafffe. jusnpTrior n.uklc, its large amount of vvluabh/information and artistic UJustratlons, elve It a Just claim to its well-earned title, *the Model Maga cine of America."

CLCBBIXG WITH COC5TT PAPBM We have made arrangements to furnlA the MAIL with the following Ne^rspipAB, published in the neighborhood of TefreHaute, at very low rates. Here Is the list: The Mali and Sullivan Union The Mall and Rockvi'U New* The Mail and JJratil Miner r/*"' a rn The Mall and Bowling Green Archive*.... 8 OT The Mall and

Mart hall llerald

The Mall and UooHer Tbe Mall and Newport J*antcript~..*.~. 3 The Mall and Attrora BorealU W

Persons getting np clubs for the MAIX, and desiring to obtain subscriptions for other periodicals on our list at the same time, wil* be furnished a list of tbe prices at which such subscriptions can bo taken separatel by us, upon application to this office,

Address. P. S. WE8TFALL,

Kff: Terre-Haute, Indiana.