Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 4, Number 1, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 July 1873 — Page 1

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Vol. 4.—No.

THE MAIL.

Office, 3 South 5th Street.

Town-Talk.

It is a mystery to T. T. how young clerks lit eight, ten, or twelve dollars a week can put on so much stylo In the way of carriage rides, amusements, fine clothes, cigars, drinks and billiards. There must be somo secret fountain of wealth from which these young gentlemen draw to meet such costly expenditures. Can it bo that the gaming table Is the source of supply. It has come to the ears of T. T. that the tiger dens are not the only rooms used for gambling purposes, and that the professional gentlemen with long tallod coats are not the only ones

who

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entice our young

mon to the gaming table but that rooms over business bouses, tho rear of these houses after tho hour of closing, ®nd rooms of the hotels are used evenings and on Sundays and that prominent, reputable business men are lending young mon and mere boys In tho first steps on thedowuward road to ruin. Only a

fevir

days Bince a leading

citizen was compelled, in order to save his boy from disgrace among his companions, to pay over ono hundred dollars which his son had lost at cards at ono night's sitting in a room of a prominent hotol. Young men you are troadlng a dangerous path. Boys, como to a halt shut down brakes opon your pyesj don't lot these sharpers fleece ^ou don't bring sorrow upon tho heads of your doting parents don't put a stain upon your character let your appearance, your conduct, your oxponsos comport with your Income strlro to bocome honest, industrious oltizens, usoful members of the community and in aftor years you will thank T. T.

this gentle admonition this

timely warning. T. T. has met a wonder. He's going to toll Ilarnum when ho comes next month. "What is it?" eagerly oxclalms tho roader It is not a "what-is-lt," but a neat, quiet, plain little dressmaker who won't blab! If T. T. had authority to givo her namo she would bo ovor-run with orders from heads of households who have suffered in the past. Dressmakors go into families In such a way, and are usually placed on such Intimate terms with the lady of tho houso, that they are suro to hoar a great many things that should not be repeated. Many of them aro most Industrious plckers-up of Information, which tboy circulate as extensively as any newspaper—oxcept The Mall, which has circulation greater than all other modlums, the dressmakers included. But T. T. has mot ono who won't gossip about the families in which sho lias had employment. Sho either says pleasant things or keeps bor lips sealed. What a comfort It would be to all who employ dressmakers In tholr houses if those very useful pooplo would only give notico so that selections could bo made judiciously 1 This plan occurs to T. T. as simple and convenient Lot the gossip per a wear hung about their necks a neat little placard, bearing tho words, "I blab," and tho quiet, honorable soul woar one with tho words "I don't blab!"

T. T. has a friend. (Astonish­

ing (Hot!) This friend has a family— himself, wife nnd grown up daughter. They want to add one more lady to the household, and T. T. is solicited to put In his column, where it will be seen and read by all women, this

ADVKRTISRMRXT KXTRAORDINANV. Wanted—Female Help—On Seventh street, No. 2222, north of Chestnut. None need apply who can como well recommended or who oan give any satisfactory reforence whatever. It Ik thought to be a tolerable good place fer a nice girl one who is ladyliko in her proclivities, or la at all progressive in her Idea*, and who has a mortal aversion to work or labor of any kind aa the household only embraces three per•on*, all of whom are over age, and who from Infancy have been accustomed to trail on and take care of themselves, Besides, the washing and ironlug is done out, and a man doe* the cooking. To the religiously disposed— if of Protestant proclivities no work required during revivals or on prayer meeting nights, and to the |»lous Catholic all meals are adjourned, laid aside, or held In abeyanoe for mass and vespers. A private, elegantly furnished parlor has at much expense been fitted up for receiving company or any vWtort who may possibly add to the enjoyment or happiness of the employed. Oa* furnished free, even to the wee sma* hoar* of the morn, whenever required. In case of alight indisposition, such a* headache or ordinary pain In the back or loin*, the service* of a skillful physician and kind nurse have been secured, who will always be in attendance, and whose services are given gratis until entirely restored. Again *ix dnji out of seven the family take their meals at the restaurant, and the dtabert are washed by the proprietor of

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that establishment. Also, on Sunday the lady of tho house, though of rather a devotional turn of mind, has very kindly consented to forego all her spiritual aspirations and, oonscienco out of the way, will do the cooking for all around. Once more—plenty of carriage andbuggy riding furnishedfreeof charge to the picnics and pleasure grounds In the neighborhood, and whenever there is the least trouble with tho family, or dissatisfaction with the city, a very proper arrangement, (notwithstanding tho recent anti-pass system adopted at Chicago,) has boon effected to visit either Put-In-Bay or Niagara Falls. And whoro there shall be any additional charge for extra chores, bonso-clean-lng, etc., this trip will, if possible, be extended to Long Branch, the White Mountains or Yosemite Valley. Apply soon, either on the premises or at The Mall office.

KT. B. It maybe well to observe that In our kitchen wo have now In use tho celebrated qulck-friction-self-acting cooking stovo, consuming neither wood or coal but which In adjusting itself annihilates both timo and labor, together with a complete and incomparable face-washing attachment. Don't forget the place.

Husks and Nubbins,

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JUNE BUGS.

Not those short fellows with striped round abouts who go deliberately to work on your potato patch some morning with as much sang froid as 11 it had been planted expressly for their benefit.

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don't mean them. They have been written about somewhat and aro a trifle hackneyed.

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Somo evening in the early part of Summoryou conclude to writo that letter which ought to have been written say a month boforo. You havo Nancy light the lamp, you pull your chair up to tho table and bogin work. You put down the date and that other line which begins, "My dear John," and loan on your pen a moment to consider what apology you oan trump up for your delay. Then your attention is attracted to a moth olrcllng round tho lamp with evident iulcidal purpose. Your experlenco of tho previous summer hag taught you that a moth will havo his way in splto of all you can do, soyoulethim divo away in an awkward attempt to find tho opening in the chimney. Presently he flops in and almost smothors your light out as he cooks complacently in tho blaze. You next hear something like tho murmur of a bass drum in tho farthor corner of the room which rises toward the coiling and comes in your direction. Something whizzos by your ear and plugs down on the tablo liko4a,apent musket ball. Of course tho lubberly fellow is on his back and you watch with groat interest tho vigorous motion of his legs In the air which Is palpably "too thin" for him to got a footing in. Aftor ho has floundered about awhile In extreme embarrassment and agitation, you kindly lend him the end of your pen-holder and help him to his feet, lie goes off vory gruflly, makes a few clronlt* of the room, and not finding any location that suits him better, comes booming back again.

By this time you notice that your paper has been Invaded by a whole army ef Infant bug*. There are brown one* and green ones, red, gray, and a good many other color*, a* well as a great variety o! shape* and alses. They seem to appreciate your effort* to please them and try to repay the obligations they are under, for they scramble diligently all over your paper and undertake te improve your chlrography by tracking the fresh ink out in direction* yon had not contemplated. Five or six skip* up on yoor no«o, aconple handful*settle in your hair and •detachment go out on recounoltering expedition to your ears. Then you lift up yoor eye* and see that the lamp Is surronnded by whole eloud of bug*. There Is a cheerful bustle and adloy olrcllng and shooting about of entomological myriad*. Five or *lx beetles are making thing* lively by bumping tholr brains out against the wall sad getting down among your papers with noise like a few humming tops In a pile of corn-husks.

The idea flashes scroe* your mind that perhaps the bugs have chosen that evening to hold their "annual convention" on, and throwing your epistolary exordium In the drawer, you kindly retire to the yard so that they may not be embarrassed by your presence. The next evening you try to fiaith your letter but are forced to the conviction thtt there Is an "sdjourned meeting," and devote yourself to communing with the moon and stars from the front door-yard. But after "*T#n

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similar experience* you begin to suspect that letter-writing i* a delusion and a snare, or at beat only a necessary evil to be indulged in *t infrequent periods during the long winter evenings, but not eminently calculated for summer recreation, and John's letter remains statn. quo until the June bugs retire at the approach of Jack Frost.

Bugs! It's a curious thought where all these myriads of jumping, snapping, flying and crawling nondescript little creatures come from and what they came for, and where they go. We should like to have Darwin step tc the front and tell if he oould what relation tho moth and the beetle sustain to us who look upon them with contempt and brush them rudely from the tablo and from life. The Autobiography of a Beetlo would doubtless have a wide sale If the publishers could get hold of it, but unfortunately the beetle is not familiar with our speech and seems to have no more literary ability than some of his biped tyrants.

Mrs. John Smith.

MORTALS VS. SPIRITS.

To HUSKS AND NUBBINS, MRS. PKLKO JONES AND DR. PENCE. Greeting: I didn't intond to mako such a commotion.

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troversies of any kind. Thoy cause hard feelings, are of little interest except to the disputants, and leave eaoh party as strong in his own belief as he was at first.

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couldn't help it becauso

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can't?

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mean that other

series of Juno bugs which begins with a little red mito you can barely seo on a sheet of white papor (or perchance oven farther back than that, but 1 have not pursued my researches any farther) anil ascends in geometrical ratio up to tho bull-headed bootle as big as your thumb.

I

wasn't pleased with tho conventions. IIow can

believo in Spirits when I

in favor of Woman's

Rights. I havo hesitated to write this week for two reasons. 1st. Because a lack of timo makes it necessary for mo to write very hastily, so that

I

can do neither

myself nor the subjoct justice, and 2nd, Because

I

do not like to engage in con­

man convinced against

his will, is of the samo opinion still," says the proverb, and we might add, "Though you may vanquish all that's human, you never can convince a woman."

Husks and Nubbins found

room in his "labored" article of last week to deal out a little sarcasm which didn't hurt and is freely forgivon. 1 had no difficulty in discovering the identity of Mrs. Peleg Jones, in tho Express. Her stylo is too well marked for concealment. It consists in taking a subject at the commencement of her remarks, losing it immediately and nover finding it in offering pathetic resolutions in the name of suffering humanity in employing many very large words to express a few very small ideas and in making her sentonces highly rhetorical and extremely ungrammatical.

"I

threw penny torpedoes

at vacuity." Y'os, and I did not miss my aim,

I

hit Mrs. Jones' ideas of Wo­

man's Rights and Spiritualism. Becanso I objected to a bonnet in the next world she thiuks I would prefer "bllsaful nudity." Nover heard it called "blissful," before, but no doubt Mrs. Jones knows how it is.

The enly point of any consequence in her article Is her defenco of tho objectionable resolution. "WHEREAS, WO look upon the crimes of seduction and abandonment, with all their concomitant evils, aa subjects of more than ordinary moment, demanding our careful on on an

WHKRKAS, we are oompelltd to associate with this class of men" (1. e. seduction and abandonment are mm,) ''in all the avenues of life, therefore be it

RESOLVED, that woman should not be an ontcast and man defended when woman is the victim and man the aggressor."

To answer tbi* fully I ahould have to enter upon a discussion of the Social Evil, which I cannot do. I do not pretend ignorance in regard to it but the more one talks and thlnke about It the lees terrible doe* it become. In the city of Cincinnati acollection was made of the argument* and resolution* against it and circulated by eertain person* among the youth of the city for the purpose of increasing instead of diminishing the evil, *nd the experiment met with success.

In the city of Philadelphia a 00mmitteeof minister* was organised for the purpose of visiting and converting the sinners. One prominent

clergymen

refused to serve and gave ss his reason that he had seen committees of thst kind before and that the convention was sll on the wrong side.

Vk» la a monster of so friabtflil mien, A* to be tasted needs but tobe sees. Yet seen too oft, familiar with her fiaee, We first endure, then pity, Uaen embrace.

Mrs. Jones sod I could never come to the same conclusion upon the subject because our premises are radically different. She believe* all men to be impure. I have a father and husband whom I believe to be pure and virtuous, and I am Hilling to grant the time qoalitlee to many other fSathsrs and husbands. Though we are brought Into business relation* with men whom we know to be the rever*e of good, we csn transact our badness and then 1st them alone. We need not receive them Into our friendship sad confidence. If we are brought into contact with women of the ssme class, treat them In the ssme msnaer, so better snd no or

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TERRE-HAUTE, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 5, 1873.

But I ssy it sgain, and I stick to it, thst the resolution psssed by the Splritualists Convention, if practically soted upon (of which thore is no probsbilIty) would tend, by removing public condemnation, to mske men no better and women a great deal worse.

Dr. Pence's courteous, gentle­

manly letter is expressed in the language of Shakespeare, "Words, words, words," but I look in vain for "arguments." I ask "what would be the feelings of a father who returns to oarth and finds his son ruined?" and the Doctor replies that "every misstep is taken cognizance of and brings a pang to the heart of a dear father," &c. I refer to Job, 14c., 21 v. whore he says, in speaking of the father who is dead, 'His sons come to honor and he knoweth it not, and they are brought low but he perceiveth it not."

When it is asked where the bonnet and spectacles came from I am referred to Hebrews, 13 c., 2 y. "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." Is there any connection between the question and the answer

Let us notice for a moment the points of similarity or dissimilarity between the angels (or spirits) that aro spoken of in the Biblo and those who exhibit themselves at Pence's Hall.

First, in personal appearance He saw the angel of the Lord standing iu the way, and his sword drawn lu his hand —Num. 22 c. 31 v.

His countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible— [Jud. 13c. Cv.

I Raw another angel come down from heaven, having great power, and the eartli was lighted with his glory.-[Rov. lSo. ly.

Who maketh his angels spirits his ministers a flaming flr&—[Pa. 104c. 4y. His countenance was like lightning, his raiment white as snow.—IMatt. 23c. 8v.

And I saw another mighty angei com9 down from heaven, clothed with a cloud, and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of Are. Rev. 10c. Iv.

Those aro only a fow of the thousand examples given. Why do they appear so differently now

Next notice the mission of the spirits in olden times. Thoy appear to guide, to counsel, to inspire terror, to afford protection, to utter predictions, to Interpret dreams, to warh God's people of danger. In no instance do wo read of their sppearing except when they had a mission to perform and In those days they could stay "materialized" long enough to deliver their messages. The "conditions," probably^ wero better. And what were the feelings which the angels of oM inspired Did people sit still and look at thorn, or hldo their faces to laugh, or grind a music box, or say "that is my wifo," or that is my aunt who had tho epilepsy We road that

Ho bowed his head and fell flat on his

face.—[Num.22c.

31 v.

And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and did worship.—[Jos. 6c. 18v.

Heweptand made supplication unto him. —[Hosea. 22c. 4V. I sat my face toward the ground and I be am an 1 0 6

And for fear of him the keepers did shake and become as dead men.—[Matt. 28c- 4v. Where havo we any record that a spirit was recognized as a former dweller upon"earth?

What promise have

we in the Bible that angels shall appear before the day of judgment? Wherever it Is said that thoy will re turn to earth it is always upon that day, "tho angels shall como forth and sever tho wicked from among the just."

Finally is there not direct assurance In the Bible that the spirits of the departed shall not appear before tho last great day

They are deceased, they shall not rise.— Is. 28c. Hv. When a few years are come I shall go the way whenoe I shall not return.—[Job. 18c. 22v.

He shall go to the generatioa of his fa then they shall never see light.—[Ps. 49c. 19v.

I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.—2p Sam. 12c. 28v. Thou shall be gathered to thy grave in peace. Neither shall 1 hine eyes see all the evil thst I will bring npon this place.—[2d. Chron. 84c. 38V.

Bo man lleth down and rlmth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake nor rise out of their sleep.-!Job. 14c. 12v.

As the cloud Is oonsumed and vaniaheth away, so be that goeth down to the grave shall come up no mote. He shall return no more to his bouse, neither shall his plarknow him any more.—[Job. 17c. 9 and 10v

These are osly. passage* taken at random, but they certainly disprove Spirituslism. I have answered .Dr. Pence from the Bible because as fkr as opinions sre concenred, mine sre^worth no more thsn his. -,

My common sense tells mo thst whatever msy become of the spirit fl«*h snd blood must perish, and cannot return to mortal sight after years have elapsed, yet I would notjJTer thi* as sn srgumsnt

They have no right to alaim that they exhibit spirits, for spirits are not material and If they "materialise" a spirit they msks a body of It. If they assert that they exhibit bodits, I grant it.

I should be sorry, indeed, to receive a meassge from sny of my friends ss badly written, miserably spelled, snd wretchedly composed ss some I havs seen from Bonaparte, Franklin, Aristotle,and other talented and distinguiahed men. I should feel that they were In a world of retrogression.

Jude 6 v. does not encourage spirits to wander around. "And the angels which kept not their first estate but left their ewn habitation, he hath reserved in ere. lasting chains under dark­

ness unto the judgment of the great day." To conclude this hastily written article I will state that I had no Idea Dr. P. wOnld accept my proposition to enter the cabinet with the medium but I had some curiosity to hear what excuse he would make. He refers to the 12th chap. 1st Corinthians to show there are "different grades of mediumship." I find that "there are diversities of gifts, but the same spirit, (4v.) and "there are diversities of operations, but it is tho same Ood which worketh all in all," (6 v.) I do not consider this any objection whatever, and besides, who knows but that I may be of the same grade as Mrs. S. and If of a different grade, perhaps my influence might be the stronger. Why not try It? However, I will say no more abont it. It Is quite safe to offer five hundred dollars for the detection of a fraud and then notpormlt any Investigation. Be liberal and offer a million dollars. As for the performances, the Davenport Brothers could far excel anything done in Pence's Hall.

It is not my intention to discuss Spiritualism any further. It is quite harmless and forms a pleasant evening's amusement. Only fifty cents a ticket to see your first wife, Mrs. Potts'epileptio aunt, and the pretty young man, familiarly known as "Mrs. Stewart's guardian angel."

MR*. JOHN SMITH.

Feminitems.

A woman never realizes her necessities till she attends an auction sale It is now positively stated that Anna Dickinson will appear on the stage next fall.

Miss Swift, of Troy, has eloped with a negro, and her friends are yery slow to pursue tho runaways.

A Brooklyn girl, fashionable in uer tastes but poor in her pocket, says she never realized her necessities till she got a husband. "It costs as much,"says the Rev.Henry Morgan, "to launch a woman on the soa of life in these times as it would to fit out a small schooner.",^

A Corning, N. Y., girl has recovered $500 from Peter, tho Presbyterian preacher, for slander. Some proachers never can keep things to themselves.

Tho women employed in the ironing department of a Bridgeport, Conn, shirt factory struck, Wednesday, because a man was placod In the same room with them.

A Boston minister concluded his sermon

as

follows "But

I

hear the rust­

ling silks in tho pews, as if some of the ladies were impatient to leavo

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will

therefore say, God bless you." A young lady, at a wedding in Now York, the other night, fractured her ankle in tumbling off the back of a pew, to which sho had clambered to obtain a good viow of tho bridal party.

Elizabeth Stuart Pholps refers, in print, to Miss Smiley, tho quaker preacher, as a "woman who has a voice as sweet as a robin's, a face as sweet as a Madonna's, a courage as resolute as an apostle's, and a purpose as fixed as a Quaker's, and who wears her bonnet Into the pulpit beside." -41

WB know very little about cfiofera. We know neither its cause, its manner of transmission, what organ is tho seat of diseaso, or what makes tho patient dio. But we do know that the intensity of the disease Wear* a direct ratio to the average height of tho thermometer. Therefore, keep oool.

Recently, in a streetcar, in Philadel pbia, and old gentleman was seated in one corner, and the car wa* full. A bevy of fair one* of all ages and weight* •warmed in and there wore no seat*. Whereupon the gallant old gentleman said aloud: "Ladies, I shall be most happy to give my seat to any one of you who I* ovor thirty-two year* of •Be." All remained standing. 0

The "Indl* rubber bu*tle" is again heard from. Thl* time It wa* a Brook lyn young lady, who wa* thrown from her carriage coming down the hill from Prospect Park. She made ninety-seven and a half bounce* in *11, and was finally rescued by a book and ladder company from the top of a telegraph pole, where she had stuck in attempting to complete the ninfty-eighth

rover & baker. gbover & baker.

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oooncft* The St. Louis Democrat has received a letter from a female cousin now going to school at Va**ar college, and the epistle contain* information of a startling character, It was thooght best to publish It. After a request to send her a bex of soft slate pencil* snd gum drop* to eat, she *ay* "We do have each fan here. All the girl* *re made to participate in oat-door exercises, and we row on the lake, ride horseback, torn h*nd-*pring*, run foot-race* and have heap* of fun. Bella Hastings can climbs thirty-foot smooth pole in two minutes. Nells Vivian (you remember her) can torn a band spring snd not mske wrinkle In her dross. I put a beautiful head on Mary Dodge yesterday In the boxing-room."

Price Five Cents*

,People and Things.^

One in every eight of Georgia's population is a Baptist. r|. Among the Chinese if a son just hits his father he is exterminated.

It seoma queer to read that a negro is a candidate for the Keatuqky Legislature.

A St. Louis man, whose cow was bitten by a mad dog, sold her to a butcher at once.

They put him in a show case," wa* the remark of a rural lady, who recently attended a city funeral.

Herr Driosbach, tho ex-lion-tamer,* living in Ohio, had his hand accidentally chopped off the other day.

A French artist has succeeded in photographing a kiss. There isn't much difficulty In getting a negativo in this country.

A murderer at Meridian, Miss., asked to be hung on the Fourth of July, and the judge kindly consented, aa It would help along the proposed celebration.

Mississippi—John Owens—114 years, 8 months, 6 days. No matter about tho hours and lAlnutes. Moderate drinker, but a confirmed rumiuator.

Whon a man in St. Louis runs hi* horse ovor a policeman, who is trying to arrest him for fast driving, the ls»cal papers say "he was not arrested very much."

Old times seem to bo coming agnuu Hero are Andy Johnson, Gideon J. Pillow* and Isham G. Harris mentioned as candidates for Governor of Tennessee.

Put me iu my little bed" netted the author less than $300, although ono of the most popular songs ever written. Song-writera average loss pay than wood-sawyers.

Barnum's treasurer don't count his currency or scrip at all, but ships it to the Nassau Bank, New Y'ork, lu barrels, always having several barrels ahead uncounted.

A real fashionable wedding in Now York now costs far more than the first year of housekeeping, and it cost* less to live on iu misery than pay the expenses of a first olass funeral. r.

A man who fell Into a vat of boiling lard and got out alive says it was not an unpleasant sensation after the first moment, but ho thought what a mighty queor-shaped doughnut ho would make.

A fow days ago one ot the attaohen of the Spanish legation entered a barber shop at Providence, R. I., to ^get a shavo. Ho was politely shown tho door with the exclamation, "We don't shave no niggers hyab."

John Lowlow, John Robinson'* man of infinite jest, endures lifo on thnI mcro pittance of $175 per week, tha' manager kindly donating his beartl. Aud yet, under theso molancholy circumstances, John Is the funniest mau alive.

Among "pulpit eccentricities" of the present day is the prcaohingof soraons on tho English poets by tho Rev. Stopford A. Brooke, a well-known in«imbootof the West lCnd of London. Ho began with Shelly, and has got ss/ar as Keats#

A Nevada-justice laid a slx-shaoter on bis bench and asked "Is there any* ono vrho takes exception to the rulings of this court?" They used to do tho same thing at Missouri boarding-hous-es, with tho facetious remark: "Anybody as don't like hash kin eat this."

Sni.1 Landor, "I havo no ailmentB, but why should I? I have eaten well, prepared food I have drunk light, subacid wines, and three glaese* instead of ten I have liked modest better than Immodest women, and I have nevor tried to mske a shilling In the workl."

In Pestb, the other day, a youthful prodigy repeated the Lord's Prayer iu twenty-two languages." We know newspaper man who can "criticise" in, fourteen language*, and speak them all at once. But an editor does well whor can repeat tho Lord's Prayer in ono language,

Milwaukee ba* long been celebratedi *e having the finest lager beer made in. this country. It has now anew *chool board composed of the following gen-, tlemen: Hondbausen, Kuonzle, Was weller, Zeigler, Schnursteln, Frletag,. Koetting, Meinecke Runcle, ObetmAUi and Trttmf.

A young man living near Detroit it, qtitred of the city officials If they were) going to celebrate the Fourth of Jnly.

Because," said ho, "If you are goingf to siiag powder and have a whooping old time. I want to get a red ^oolen shirt and a pair of new boots, and como in with Sarah."

President Grant having been asked, by

a

young I^dy If the rtport wa* true, which she bad heard from an officer who bad served with bim, tbathewwip never known to swesr, replied: I have always regarded profane language: I as unnecessary, to say the least, and ftst

I *m a man of few word*, I have never been able to understand the necessity for useless expressions of the charac-| ter referred to."