Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 4, Number 16, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 October 1873 — Page 1

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Vol. 4.—No. 16

Neighborhood Gossip.

BKAZIL.

An opera hoa*o Uoneof tbecrylni *»nU of Bn»xll. If the theatrical demands of the people remained at, their present Hiatus, however, a snug sinking fond would herequired to kwpii running.

There Is talk of hsvin* Mark Twain l#ctore hm thl» winter. Will Mime on* tearfully b*»#«ch him cot to come?, were afraid he wonld get discouraged and hang hi* lute on the hazel bushes.

Coal operators who had never let« payday go by default for six years, wore eorapt'llec! to do ao la*t Hatur lay, owing to the »irlngency In money matters.

Of count© BissHI will be here with his Cut horse* on the itfnl. We give hlin warning UiaI he mu*t not "net up any more raoat, as he did at the fair.

Hornetlilng more than a year ago Nefcon Stimn«T shot and killed Dutiltl Our in a midnight bacchaualla near the "i A preliminary examination WM held and the evidence au«iuc««l wan vary strouft against Kmntier In fart It appeared he was a good candt'lnte for the rope. At the fall term of court tl»e case should have been triel but the defence, on a plea of not being ready, got it i*»»tpon«xl. L»«rt wtek the owe came up for trial before tbe circuit court aud ended in ll«a*r«*eiin'tit of the Jury, eight standing lor acquittal and four for ihe penitentiary two y«?ar». Almost everybody be1 levee Hum nor to be jullty of wilful murder, but all the Important witnesses for the state mole away a* ulleutly an the proverbial

ondthe defence nad It all their own way. Of eimrne another trial will be so indent to clear Humnc-r entirely.

Tltere widow lady here who receive® lit),001) a year royalty for coal mined on her land.

Our ho«t of the National House haa been Kinking extensive re pain and improvement* and ho la coufldent that the National wltl

compare

favorably now with the ho

tel* 01 any of the leading cities. The Danbory New# man la stopping here temporarily. Me write# for the Sunday Express.

The temperance people are agitating the whl iky question gently. One or the principal violator* of the law Is a member or the city eooncil.

A wore of young people of both sexes oxcurled t" "the golden, glorious wools'on Wednesday morning, wltM a vaguely defineU nurpoiM* of gathering fun nuu hickory ntit*. Th«»v went In state, belag «nthri,ned on I i^s-V Iluid wagon, drawn by four fiery ate iU They had the appearance of the head of a circus,borefl of It* trapptngs Of banners and br»»*-uot meaning to Insinuate that there was none of the latter comtnodttv In the company. This would In all probability do the party great Injustice. The mull k*av«"S before your correspondent bait time to leant the re»ult of th* expedi''whall we have another railroad Presently. »The longest pole knocks the persimmon" is much quoted by the seeker* ol thai delightful fruit Jost now. If any of Ihe MalP* readers are so much unfortunate as never to have tnKtid the delicious berrj* and are anxious to do ao, the following recipe will give them uu artificial flavor that l« hardly lobe dl»tls«ulshed from that of the genuine persimmon. Spirits of vinegar 2 o*.: Atumn I dr. Thoroughly mixuntflall the ntutdu IM dissolved and eat with a teaKJHXHI.

The rrorganl*..! "tfoeial Club" wirriflces on the altar of Terpalfhore !u *rpenur flail seral-monthl*. Health and longevity are the prrolou* offerings the gauxy goddess demand*.

Hov. ». H. tomb, the new rresbyterian minister. I* universally liked by his congregation, ami has the Aroapect berore htm of a pleasant and proRtnole work.

plain Ira Hiood. fbr two yeara pasta partner in the Arm or Kichardson A0o„ ha* mild hi* Interest and will go back to his first low, traveling for a wholesale *hoe housw. Tne eauiatn will be mlased by hU many friend* ntr».

An we write Ui« election lagolng on. It l* one of the mo«t quiet we ever w»w. 13 lo noon only a liunur^l vote* w«»« ca*t. ft I* llkeiv Mr. Coffey will be beateu. The county seatiii' etlou and hUrecoinmendation of Judge Thurman, hi* op|*nent, are being u»ed MRaiant him. lender theelrenmitance* Mr. tWey should not Iwveran.

GRKENCASTLK.

All I* n»l«t lu wmard to flnanelal mattera at nrwwt.t, Nosign of the farmer's Bank reaun Ig yet. The Flr*i NaUmal tran»aetlt mxinenax unual. tho late panic apparentiy notaWsetlug it In the leant,

Raster Bill don't «eem to have any inflnin« In Ihia place, Judging from the noorJaliing bu%lne«« our numerxu* saloou* appear to doing.

The "(JrnmJ Ojem Ho«#e Coreblnatloa"a friend at our elbow Miggrata a wmblnatlon of "t. nV'-mad# Uielr apiMMunneeal Brown'* Hall for two nights laat week. They isniwn h»m 7 iT were advertiMd for Ihree nlghU, but dl»ppeared after the eeeottd. It »«ppo*e*l that Uiev supplied themselvea wlth| umbrella* Ul*y»UpiUI«U amf lanterns and made up a Ifxui to walk to the next towt.

Our oily marsh*! i* doingaUvely M»ln«M gathering In the stray hogs. rapt. H. Jamea. a rlv«r man of over Uilrty y«**r* exp^itence, iiaa token ap lu* ainxle In this elty. The crowning trtnmph of the CitpialnV W»ins*a life 1* tne "UtUe Orwry mnd the corner, which he haa juxt oj** -i lu the F^armwli Bank BuUdlog

Dur tmatortlce miaht do very well tor wonae rounto' (toifrtMa* but It lebenewth the dignity of a city of *ueh larje jwewmxtooaaa our own.

An luqulsltire individual wan is to know why It is that the fiAnnef jmbilahw the time-table of two of our ratJmads but omIU ihe I. tw, t„ Ite«plalnly can be because this road refnaea to pot of their paseee where they will do the moat good.

The manager! of the Asbnry Itevtew have «onel«ded to cotwidetaMr extend tbe cirvaiiiUon of that p*t*r Uy oo«r1ng M*clai pf*mlums to thowe getttng np clube. The Review is a very Interwtfrg and welcome monthly vlattor «uad rteWy deeervea a large •ubecriptlon IM

Imtlanapolt* elalme to have th» chamiou barber of the I'SlWd Htale*. That liou barber of the l- aiww wates. in*itUy tl« face to claim moat anything, *»«t we i: v. jer our reimtatlon aa aJndge of .- .,h art that our H«ry *StS«5 M-rape more «n»»tenane«t In a i|*«Je»«yh of time «»v»n the ®f any oth man. And .tot hatr^cutUng. why. lb in can gather In more hair in a week tl the llwtlKt Mo4o« |A a MA

The hitsonje »toa« front Wwkonthje corner or Washin«tHi aod J® be conu4et«d in a very short llowThe corner to to be occupied by a ftowCf, thenex' a reauawtnl, «nd tke »i«*l W tut 8tm dewing Mactotne Company.

The n~v »-trH!«e man has been «w|d again. We*:"Vrely hope that UM fteol-fiKH-VT Urt-H

A revival l* now in pmyees at the Da^tM chorch. and MOM good work te being

A member of the Uat theatrtea) troope in formed Ue proprtetoe of the Banner tit at o^«l abaikU* Eo«Uvine^lK» that be tat r*ta**danotfcrof WwhuirimUmontk io n]iv mi wilfc (tkto

S W S town. !Oh how lore^T.to«»TneC -he ttxrar» on* made by the wffl* tna at Tte^ Mall^* ehrotoo "Otwd

rtstdenc* here.

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THE MAIL.

SULLIVAN.

Items are not as plentiful or numerous as children In our well regulated school, conducted by Profe. Crawford and Hays.

Harry Hill, your agent, and George Perrovr, the skillful manipulator of the Key* of Western Uuion Telegraph Company, at tills place, returned from the Indlanapoila Exposition much pleased with their vtalt.

Mr. Jamea Reed, who haa been In the mercantile buslnem for over hair a century, la still one of oor most active boatneas men.

The election passed off qult tly and peacefully, the successful candidates are well pleated with the result.

We elected "W. Scott Maple," a young lawyer of this place, to pr«-eerve the peace and dignity of the commonwealth. Aa1-Jus-tice of the Peace." "Esqulrw" Maple bears his honors meekly and modestly. The Court will doubtlww understand herself. Violators c* the law had better rooet high.

Wo were much disappointed In the defeat of Mr. Hamlll, as prosecutor of the pleas of the State.

John Miller has pure hated LuManwarlng'a properly and has moved to the town. He Ut a man of wealth, and will doubtlee* Invest In some enterprise, that will remit In the mutual advantage of himself and the community. Mr. M. Is an enthusiastic member of the 3d. K. Church.

Wo are much in need of small tenement houses, there Is not a week, but there are many applications for houses by parties who wish to locate here. "Higher, still higher" Is the word.

Prof. A. 8. Beaxel drives the spanklnest pair of bays that appear upon our javenues —they arc a handsome team.

Rev. W. P. ArmsL'ong pienched his litrewell sermon last Sunday, he goes hence to Mt. Vernon, Iud.

Your ••Sullivan Gosslper" attended the Indiana Conference of tne M. E. Church at Princeton. He was much pleased with what he saw and heard-lhe singing of "chapIain" McCabe, a* be Is known fn this country, who acquired so much notoilety during the war-Is excelled by uoone but •'Phillip l'hilllps." Hro. McCabe Is not a "proJesslonal."

Death has entered the happy home of our friend, Jes*ie IllckneJ, and taken his little boy, Hnrvoy. Ho has the sympathy of our entire community.

The Sullivan mare, "Puss," It seems, was not Invincible. She was beaten by your TerrcHaute mare. Our boys yield gracefully and say they will get "Pius" in better trim and try it again. "Klder Jo Wolfe" or "Uncle Joale," as he is familiarly called, Is one of the most active and ingenious business men In town.

Rev. l)avls. the new pastor of the M. E. Church, wlil be with us next Sunday. "Bob Dudley" Is the accommodating proprietor of the Hack line from here to Koblusou, 111.

The fumillnr salutation when friends meet upon the street is, "what nice weather we are having."

The Odd Fellows are negotiating with the "confederacy" tor the privilege of building a third storv, upon one of their buildings, for a hall, ilope It will not bo all talk.

The information I have from the county Is that the wheat crop never looked better at this season of the year.

These are the ruling prices for country produce: Wheat, 51.00 Corn, new.73c: I'otat«)cs,70c: Apples, |l.0: Turnips, &>c Pumpkins. 91.00 p«-r load Coal, He per bushel Wood, *200 to per cord Feathers, 00c per pound.

MARSHALL.

Trude Improving. Judge Sohofleld Is still at Ottawa. May Wilkin Is still at the Stat* Capitol. The \vrk on the new church progresses nicely.

Public vendue ut Ihe Sherman House this week. Miss Alice Hasted has returned from 8t* Louis.

D. O. Martin and D. a McMullen have returned from Chicago. "By the powers of the Holy Cathallc

Mf* Ji-nnle Rywn was made Mrs.

John Don Inn, at 7 A. M. Monday last.

Chnrch,"

IDCSVSI IIlTTlIj lllv inialUllWM "petli" out of any tiling that Marshall yet.

can knock th has ever struck 1 ho plcamint sound of the Catholic Church bell Is again heard in our land.

With the foree that our "*treet man" is now working, he will bo enabled to make It pretty rough for buggies and wagons. "Tou*e" Is a good "trader" and lias speculated a great deal In horses, but the last trade brought him to grief, Ah, Jake, Jake!

With the present facllltiea, Marshall Is enabled to tell "postage stamps" as cheap as any town in th® West.

Tdatnlce looking gentleman, behind the moustache. Is ihe Adams man. There Is music in that fellow.

Terre Haute ••drummers*' raided Marshall early last Monday morning. Them "fellers" will keep on until some of them will get killed yet.

the re-bandling of a large lot of eggs, that have been preeerved by his process. If "that widower" fails to "Bud a woman" it will not be hi* ftutlL He la putting in the time mighty faithful, 1 tell you.

That One-haired yoaag man that lost the sleeve-button the other night, can gel It by reivalrlnn the hinge* on "that .Bate," and paying for thl* no I Ice. The cold weather certainly will pot estop «o smcti basinca*.

As I twftue remarked, the Saturday Evening Man Is becoming very popular in Mar* shall, cep^olally with th# ladles, they mu»: have the "mail," you know.

After looking over all the different styles remarked to the It was two yards of

of tlrem U»e lady clerk, Mr. l»tf»an, Uiatlt eatk» she wanted.

Oor efficient clrmtt rterk, t. J. Davidson, finds somelent ground* fw "attachment'* over »e*rth«»t*le ill*. HerwwiUtogneas to give aptl»«*«M I* Iheoaljr impediment now.

Fred, the butcher, stepped! to A»«ler» sow* jwtenlay and mm* log to maato htr wld who ke was eolnato »e*h r^.--you bo tinderotanu, repdetl Fred, 'Iwjl yard stick to gel leoi*hAf Ah.the Iuteh. the Dutch,

One of the •^tAMteeae" a hAWto his "Uulceaa" andl^Umt to gel»4B answer, sent another to know wbethcr the first was rve«fv«d or not. ahe answered, "Yes, but who «m!d read it Haveat jr««iM»y one In the store ttat ran writs* any be*t«r ttten that Hath acralelUn* as U»at won do.

Ttm Hemkl thinks tbat the drammera all ought to be Miot. The X«Menffer thlntei that the drummers all oogtJt not to be shot. Now ft any SM knows for eertah* a)ic«t thia meiter, Vet tbea tte tad ex#4*la imm»tiatelr. as the HermWhas the govern inewton Its and may have them exevblcd betore they know li»

PARIS.

PheOrand Jsury meetaon thellth of nexl

Tt»e Grand u»onU. »0«w wh«r

her points—iJhelf Tenvlltg Wwti t» the

prtrf. Wood, the him I ^lf an ad*»x in la an

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ndVriiK^". *—f "TL"'

I ttfU frtialias. boarding,

!n Harry Matthias, of tbe^Parteandj^sn vtiie R. R.vre baweoeeol —*****.

Jack Fts^'agtf^harM carried off

ttK rt peemlun*. trolling at the

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Charleston Horse Fair. Paris honjes and horsemen were In full attendance. The Fair was considered qnlte a success.

There was a change In R. R. agents, I. A fit. L. R. R. at this station one dsy last week, Mr. W. R. Gough superseding Mr. Ed. Bnlkly.

C«l. W. B. McCord, Ihe energetlfl insurance agent, laIn Chicago, looking to Insurance matters and to the exi0elll0H.

Jos. E. Dyas and fkmlly returned home on Tuesday last, having been visiting friends lu Chicago for several weeks past. Joe reports having enjoyed himself vastly among nls old irieuds.

Raster's dramatic troupe mint have stranded somewhere at least, they failed to come to time at Paris. It Is better for us that the »how* foil before reaching town than to break on our hands.

Lew Hubbard has removed to Oakland, Ills., and Is engaged in the boot and shoe business. Lew reports that business with him Is good.

The Paris variety show that started on a tour a week or so ago came to grief at Oakland. Board bills, *c. being the trouble.

Prof. Woods' agent left the Paris House a large lot of programmes, posters, Ac.,. Ainon'a holding tliem lor hU bill. Will Atlion wants to engage somo party to personate Prof. Woods und go snooks in the illusion business.

The Paris and Rockvllle R. R. like a great many enterprises has come to a standstill, though Andie Hunter Is full of hope thinking it lobe Just a mutter of time as to the building ol the road.

Os Bulmnn, the Justly popular conductor on the Paris fc Danville R. H., lias obtained a short leave of absence from the road. The unlcr-tandlog la that he has gone to take a wife unto himself.

C. K. Carpenter, who was connected with Nat Atlion in the management of the Charleston Hotel, has withdrawn from the business, and is inakiug Paris his headquarters agaiu.

Buck Cislev, a boy from Kansas, Ills., while handling a pistol on the street last Monday evening accidentally shot himself, Inlllcllug a painful though uot daugerotis wound In the leg. Another warning to boys.

Since the Paris items in last week's Mail has been out several mistakes in them by the printerhave been observed. Bruce Powell is circuit clerk Instead of circuit attorney, as printed. The new Methodist mlwlster's name is Davles, not Davis.

Kiom the amount of goods that have been sliined into town for the past week or two. one would think that financial matters did not troublo our merchants much. It looks as If they Intend having a full stock of goods in all lines.

During the financial flurry our Banks nnld currency on demand. The people In the main having the fullest confidence In the stability of the banks.

W. Levlngs, Esq.. has been confined to the house by rhenm .tlsm for a week or two past, but Is out on the street again.

Ed Bulkly, late agent on the I. A St. L. R. R. at this station, hits been appointed assist

ant

superintendent on the Paris & Decatur R, K. David McNutt has been appointed yard master of the Paris and Decatur H. U. at Paris station.

A number of Prof. Hurty'a pupils are fitting themselves for teachers. The Prof, has the reputation of turning out quite a number ot successful teachers.

ROCKVTLLE. F#

John Burke Is visiting In Ireland. Dr. Pickard, Postmaster of Blooralngdule, died on Tuesday night last.

The election on Tuesday passed off very quietly. Owlnga Steele 1* the champion squirrel hunter.

The ladles of .the Presbyterian church have organized a mlsslenury society. Last Saturday was hard on the newsboys. The rain deprived them of many nickels.

An appeal comts up from the Odd Fellows orMemphis to the brethren here for help.

Mrs. Capt. Campbell, President of the Weman Suffrage Association of Indinna, Is visiting in Ohio.

Dr. Paxton. long a resident and a snccenafut physician of bcllmore, has removed to Rockvilie

Old Mrs. Rumor say* (hat somebody else gays that the "youngestdruggist' will some re tire-from single life.

Henry Llndsey, colon*!, whom the Vigo authorities have arrested for complicity In the Otter Creek murder, lived hero ft year or two.

Mr. Thoe. Xe!son, near Bloom ingdale will •ell fine lot of cattle at auction, October 30th.

Six months ago Judge Wilson qaltthe t»e of tobaroo, utter chewing the weed fifty yearn* dint Mcrphv is In clover among his friends In the visiting.

RockvUle furnish** two stodento at Webash CoUeae— U. ROK«" and Ed. l&niels. The Ballou-Hudson libel suit, docketed in theOreult *.X»jrt,oB change of venue from Vl«o county, has not yei com* to trial.

Aeol*r«d girl named Pleraon mamrtried twit wMkln the atftttt Comt of ter^ eeny and ssnutencenl to the Remimatory inMttntlen for women Mhl girls.

On eleetloa d*y a D. Pnett to# ooe of tmrouawis limy ituw too feud, whk-hre-«M(d in the 4eaib ol one of the bone* wortEoaebaadjr^ and ftfty dollars.

F*re«r*«r* eu^atrUiMJtot oo»*ft«t Hto Vban«ht» Sinefc cxop*wln be ngwl next

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planted In the fkll or spriag. A rmlb named Fred Bail— —. and jailed tbeatber day for teaataf a pet» We, two pwtids in weight,Irt^XjfttlBa tavecty, aulking him on the cheek. The boy w*» mad when he made Use tosa.

At the eiwttoooo the lUh tnet. five hundred vf*«e «m«M at this pnwfnet. The

*ey*tone State, whenfiio

Next yew the Odd Fellows of Howard Lodge No. 71, will celebrate the 35th annlverswry of Its ot*anl*stlon.

Feline practice in thorough bam and harmony, relieves the monotony of theee autumnal nighU.

Mr. Walker Adams Itos resided longer In Parke county than any oliier person now living.

The new bank will blow in under the name and style of "We Parke County Banking Company.

Mr. Ell Butlln died on Ronday laat of Typhoid fever, after «»Illness of only a mw day*.

Roekvtlle hw »Wrw» of th# antmrtiwcken ot by T. T. In the Mall week before last, and they seem to think lt»e eontcn were mode ror tbtfr «§|eci b«aitnt%

The Hand Creek Coal, Company atoipe twelve car loads of coal daily, which number will be luereawil to twenty car load* before long.

The late saloon keepers are renting on their oar* awaiting the deelaton of the Sopreme Coort oa twwtHtiUonaUiy of the liquor law.

eskretieo, when tbe

eiaat UwlMypwcna majority waa£

cbiUt^Mr.aasl Mr*. Clay Han1 cm Toertay night last. Thla Is the KflMMi Mtfe»\iM, a«fd they have

wond

last. Thla Is the

*rev«*i —Rd. a«td th« the AnusoBXERi Imt« b«ea nad« for redseed far* from alt tbm »urToandiB|| towns on the ocvaston of Mi*. H. B»

I«a4is«. &t tbt C^era BO«m.

Tickets good for Use retarn trip o« tbe I morning of the fflrd

TERRE-HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18, 1873. Price Five Cents.

Events^of the Week.

NARRATBD nr Luu SMITH.

A Fifth street man waa undecided at a late hour, yesterday evening, whether to go up to tbe Chicago Exposition today or attend the funeral of hta mother-in-law. He aays he Is determined to lay off from work for one or the other because he hasn't bad any fun for over a year.

A Cherry street woman saya she does wish when people are paasing her bouse In the evening, they would talk loud enough for her to bear what they say without leaving her room, as it is getting too oold for her to sit out behind tbe rose-bush, in tbe comer, any more.

Young Elkins entertains his girl Sunday nights by reading to her the poems he bas written during tbe week. Lost Sunday he road her a touching little ode, Be Kind to Your Mother, Lovo, she's Growing Old,' which so moved her with its tender sadness that she wept for live minutes on bis shoulder and lay in bed till ten o'clock the next morning, wbilo her mother did tbo washing for a family of ten.

A young man sent his girl a box of grapes, one afternoon lately, and tbo noxt day a fellow met him on the street and said, Those grapes were jolly good last night. Send some up overy Wednesday evening—that's my nigbt you know.'

This is the sweet and balmy season of tbe year, when little boys who havo carried home a basket of apples for a lady neighbor, thank her politely for the couple she gives tbem and hurry round to the alley to see if any one has stolen the dozen they laid out there, when passing. |-fc

Mr. West said to his boys Saturday morning, whon they asked him If they might go paw-paw bunting, Yes, my dears, go and enjoy yourselves all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." In tbe evening when ha came home, through the darkening shadows and plumped himself down into a chair where tbey had laid six mellow ones, he remarked, Where tbe devil are those infernal boys I'll teach them to waste all day .Saturday doing uothing, when I get my breeches clean."-

Mr. Clark lives out on Liberty Avonue, aud divides bis attention between a late garden and a pig he is trying to fatten. His next door neighbor has a pig but no garden, and bis next doer neighbor's pig feeling the need of a soft spot in earth's bard bosom, comes over into Mr. Clark's garden and plays sad havoo among his cabbages and sweet potatoes. Last week Mr. Clark went over to his neighbor and advised him to

keep his darned pig at home,' and warned him that ho luteuded to kill that pig and give it to the soap-groase man if he caught it in his garden again. Then he went home and there rooting up bis choicest swoet potatoes and lev •ling his cabbages to tbe earth, waa that

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fiiiij»iwv»w«#"B»'w »v —I llur« tiu omu owmiw»mi«5 *v —v pig. To seize the carving knife and article which his wife prepared .. nl SSft #1% aft If -i Aa. at

rush out and dispatch that pig, with one quick thrust, was the work of a moment. To call in the passing soap man and present him with tho body waa the work of two minutes more and Mr. Clark wont into tbe house feeling that be bsd vindicated his rights as became a freeman. After swelling aronnd awhile he took a pail of slop and went out to feed bis own pig. An empty sty, broken board lying on tbe ground, tracks leading across to th# garden and tbe voioe of hia next door neighbor explaining to a visitor the fine points about the pig he was raising, led Mr. Clark to see that it does not pay to kilt one's own pig and give it to a man who deals in soap-grea«e, after spending five dollars for feed and three and half for a aty.

Judge Elkins spent sn hour and a half laat Saturday alleraeon, In a vain hunt for his Mail. When the girl came home from market and undressed to get supper, the paper was found on the floor folded over an eld belt.

Blskewood went lo call on his girl Thursday evening, bat she was not at home. He had ao cards with him, bat he left a specimen piece of doeekln and a part of his left leg in charge of ber brother's dog, and went hurriedly forth Into the night.

Virtue is lu own reward. A and g#o«roes ilttl# boy atol« a piece of bread, Intended for rata, from his mooter's pantry and never toid on bts brother who took It from him. Aod tbe winked brother ate it and dSed.

Dickson malting along at aa early hour of the asoraing, with an aoxJooa look oa his foe* and a handle In his hand, waa met by his friend Morris, who looked at him knowingly aod said, "At last! How much does It weigh and what is It?"

didn't aak. It's a

twenty-five cent one. My wife's mother mam last night and we want |o broil it for breakfost," was the ldkx*e reply.

Mr. West's noes is so straight that he has always hsd a great deal of trouble trying to keep Ida epeetaciea on: hat

last night they foil off sad knocked a They just walk right into the firepf

bottle of Ink over on his wife's bast laoe their own aooord, and stand there as if., collar, and now he haa a Roman noae they enjoyed It. and can wear those spectacle# easily.

Town-Talk.

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SLAVICS.

T. T. haa a secret. He bas just learned it. It Is an entirely new discovery. It is not sensational. Yet it take# a big load of blame oST one set of shoulders, and perhaps It put# it, or another load, on other shoulders. It haa fast oome to tbo knowledge ofT. T., after many years of close study and observation, that there is a class or p«ople who are born slaves. Just as other people are domineering and will always presume to dictate, these people are always servile and will be dictated to. Two regular old tyrants, when they come In collision, will not Ilgbt for tbe mastery any more surely or obstinately than two of these born servants will contend for serving each other. Just as other people make slaves of those over whom they can get the control, these people make tyrants of those whom they can g©t ho their masters. Only tbe other day T. T. was walking with a friend (he has one or two articles of that kind left) who said "I hate that old brute." "Hate him why f" "Because he is such an old tyrant. He just makes a slave of bis wife."—"My friend, you are mistaken, at least in part. That woman bas just made a tyrant of bim. He had good material in hi in very likely for the article. But she has made bim up. He would have been a very decent man but for bis wife." "Butfor his wife! Why, she is one of the gentlest, meekest, sweetest and most watchful and obedient women you ever saw. She humors every wish and whim of her husband,

"Hold my fast friend. There

is just the difficulty. She bas laid hersolfdownso often and constantly for him to walk over, so that be could not step without tramping on her, that ho has come not to mind walking over her. Hold, I'll tell you what I mean. He never has a wish or whim but she llies to gratify it, whether It is best for either her or him that she should do so. She never imagines that be haa a want that she does not gratify it. She may have a headache, or be hardly able to drag about, and yet she will do the most preposterous and nonsensical things, sittlug up half the night when sha ought to be in bed, or running over town in the hot sun when she ought to be indoors, that sbo may anticipate some want, or supposed want of his. Just wait. Don't interrupt me. I know as well aa you that he takes it all as a matter of course and seems to expecetit. Pray what else could a man do after a half dozen years of such treatment as that? I know ss woll aa you thst be never seems to think of ber, and is it strange, when she has uot let him think of her for theso years? Just the otherday I was there at din-

Ho said something to me about

so finely. She disappeared, and at tbe ond often minutes reappeared, red in tho face from the kitchen fire, with the article in hand. You would have supposed he had ordered It, but he had not, and did not expect It. After dinner just as we were returning to the draw-ing-room, ofl she rusbed ap-stairs,— and by the way she had a headache that dsy and was generally under the weather. What did sho go for Why just to shut ajwindow. Why didn't she ask bim? Or why didn't she send up one of the boys there There were three or four within call. No she moat do it herself, and would not let any body know what waa to be done till she hsd done it herself. And that is just the way it is all the time. She baa spoiled her husband. She haa spoiled her children. And all just because aba would be a alave.'*

Of course T. T. waa exhausted at the end of that fiery speech. Btrt at its elose it was clear to his mind that there were some people who make slaves of themselves, sad tyrants of all about them. There are born slaves, and it la all tnoonahine to ssy thst their husbands, or their children, or anybody else, makes slaves of them. Most of thatebora slaves are of the female order? But there are male specimens. They are tv be found in almoat every kind of society. There woe Bill Takethebut. He was a first rate follow. Nobody took any particular pains to give fain any attention, until there waa solas work to be done. Then he was honored with the chairmanship of all the working commltteee. He would work and drudge, do all his share of the work, and everybody's else share, aadof eoarae they let hint do it» Most people will let almoat anybody do their work for them. People said mil wss imposed upott. So he was. Bat there wse no need of it. He issposed upon ld«Htf«onethtt anybody Imposed apon him. He would bes slam He grambled about It some. He btamed other peopife Bat the foolt was hi* own. There ht no seme In these people eettlng themselves up as martyrs,

Husks and Nubbifis.

"7, LXVL fj LITERARY WORK*. Few who read have any just conception of the immenae labor involved in literary oom position in foot we may rtak the assertion that no on#" haa who is not himself writer. You pick up a magazine and rapidly turn the pages of anew atory. Perohanoe it will take yon an hour to read it. Have you an idea how many weary and toilsome hours it oost the author

There are mauy who think that literary work is not so much work as a

delightful sport that he who can write -i has but to sit down with paper before him and penoil in hand and—write! That there is no toil, no fatigue, no irkaomenes8 in the whole juiatter. Beautiful in theory but most false in foot. Slow, hard work is authorship.

Fancy yourself a young author. You are going to write a story. What shall it be? You want something new and original—something your own. You proceed to think out some plot, and while doing so are struck with the difficulty of creating anything from nothing. Bye and bye you think you have sifted out of a whole world-full of impossible suggestions, a simple plot. that will answer your purpose. Then you begin to write, at tbe very commencement. It does not suit you. Yoa throw tbe pages away and begin again. You feel dissatisfied as beforo, but from ahear despair of getting it to please you better, you determine to plunge into the madias res—to write away and see what will come of it. As you work gradually and methodically along you have to resist a hundred temptations to run off into some vagary which your plot did not contemplate or,if the temptation booomea irresistible, you actually follow the new idea, feebly hoping that you oau remodel what you have written so aa to make it consistent.

At last your story Is crudely finished —that is, you have a beginning, a middle and an end. Do you think, reader, that it is ready to be sent to tho editors? The worst of the work is yet to be done. After a day or two's cooling you begin to review your production, with fear and almost with trembling. You strike out a word here and there— then aaenteneeand finally whole paragraphs. You find that the inspiration of the moment baa led you into extravagancea and you go carefully outting and pruning your way along. When done your pages present a sadly demoralised aspect—erased, iuterlarded and generally bleroKlyphic. It would take an expert to get the sense out of tbem, if tbero is any there—of which you are far less sanguine than you once was. Tbe next thing is to re-write yoorstory throughout! Ah, tbero is dry business for you. Infinitely harder than the first composition is this tedious, mechanical copying of etaleg

thoughts and second-hand sentences# The hours measure tbls task wearily.^ But at last yoor story is finished. Audit bow tame and insipid it seems Fort you all the froth and sparkle have van' iabed. You wonder if it ever had auy^ foam or sparkle.

With a feeling that you have not done your beet, and that you most do better or give up your ambitious drcsms, you mechanically fold your manuacript away In an envelope, pat stsmps Inside and oatslde of it, meditatively snd with whst is Meant to bo shrewd divination of where you will receive the beat treatment, put tho superscription on it and furtively drop the heavy package into the mall bo*. For some weeks thereafter you dart spaamodloally at each successive number of tbe periodical to which your story waa addressed with au osgernese ss grsst ss if yoa sxpeoted it to ooataln the announcement of your falling heir to several millions on the other side of the water. Bat yoa do not eeem to find what you are looking for and soma morning the clerk in the poet office banda yoa a heavy letter which you ju»tity oonoeal in your side pocket aa If it contained something mash more valuable than a handle of rejected mauntftffptr Yoa fiing it into the bottom of yoar trank where it will not be lone* ly from tbe lack of congenial company, and set aboat writing anew story. Yoa are not discouraged. You reoollect what eome Frenchman said about "tbe angelic patleaoe of genius," snd resolve that yoa can at least hate the patienoe, whether the gods have granted yoa tbe gonlaa or not.

Bat why partial ?—the omnivorous leader ssks Innocently. Ab, years ago, when yoa wm bat a stripling boy, gloating in secret over some volume that brought all the blood to your brain, yon rasolved to be sn satbor. And sn author yoa will be! It Is notesey tofkil when the whole eonl is imbued with single purpose. The hardest thing In the world hi to be beaten. Itiseomparatively easy to fitdg swsy tbe bays once tbey are won,bat not to win tbem, that Is humiliating. And ao you write on.

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