Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 4, Number 33, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 February 1874 — Page 1

Vol. 4-.-—No. 33

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THE MAIL.

Office, 3 South 5 th Street.

DOLORES. STK.R. HOPKixa.

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her htvnds I gased upon her face,

fifpaa and unclasped them, crossed tbem into plaoe, Cold a* the snow ffod'« frozen into stone. Felt there no bearl-throb leap Into mine own, Cfrew chill sunlight over Icy land,

Kisstni her band*.

In dream* I elaap the hand* so dear to m*. Dreams of sweet pain beside a boundless •en* With eager laagh shade my hangO'eyos, Mockithe whjte sea foam In the angry aide* Leaps tbe wild billow from the quivering sands.

Kissing her bands.

FmyKuy, Ind., Feb. 9.1S7I.

Town-Talk.

OUR CHCBCH

Held very iuterestingserviceslast Sunjay evening, conducted by oar beloved psstor, Rev. James Hook. Fluke was present and made some disturbance by demands to be permitted to measure tbe chains with which Laura Morgan was fastened, Of course his request was not granted. When we had the chain just right so that tbe spirits could materialize, we were not going to have tbe conditions violated. Our dear pastor very kindly offered to let Flake measure the chains all day Monday. No unprejudiced mind eon Id fail to seo that the persecuted shepherd of this flock was partetly^bonest, and extremely anxious for p.thorough investigation. T. T. beard some insiduous remarks by members of tbe congregation about

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in tbo pulpit. It is true, that wben Fiske insisted apon measuring the chain with which this goodly and loving Jhther bad bound bis child, Deacon Morgan did say, "By 3—d you shant do it.** But it mast be remembered thst this was said while Brother Morgan was assisting in conducting religious services, and »ueb language is customary and allowable in tbe pulpit. All tbe clergymen nse language of this kind wben in disohage of their official duties. It la not profanity but an expression of religious fervor, earnestness and honesty. If skeptics cannot tolerate in us what they constantly hear In theotber churches, they had better stay away.

THH LAWYKJIN

haf had a narrow escape. Tbey came within an aoe of having an immoral man amoug them. It really makes one shudder to think how near the Terre Haute bar came to contamination. But wben a bad man comes into the company of tbe good tbe conflict of moral and immoral forces, readers tbe pure conscious of tbe approach of impurity. So was it when Harry Cassi I appeared ou Wall street and in tbe Court Boom. The purity and inuocence of tbe legal profession felt a shock at once and tbe lawyers knew that a discordant element bad Intruded upon tbem. They immediately Inquired "Why is this thtti?" and learned that Jonah Oasall— commonly called Harry—was the csuse. They at once with remarkable courage, and with a holiness of purpose seldom witnessed in ibis frail world, determined to throw this modern Jonah overboard or perish in the attempt. T. T. interviewed some members of the bar, and perhaps tbe public will be Interested in a few of tbe questions and answers.

T. T. having carefully washed bis own hands that he might not pollute the hand of innocence, in exchanging the common •jivilttlee, made his way to Wall street and, having found where the Guardians of Parity were holdings meeting, entered, and with a polite smile introduced himself, and made known his business. He was assured thst they were ready to opon their immaculate bosoms to public inspection. "T. T. turned blandly to the chairman of tbe meeting and asked, "What are some of the reasons for objecting to tbe ftdintsftton to the bar of Mr. Cassil?" The chairman replied, "Mr, Cassil's moral character is not such that It is safe to trust the interests of justice in his hands.**

Wherein Is It delectus,? asked T. T. O sir, in many respects. For one thing he wm a confederate officer."

So I have heard, bat haVe yon not members of the bar who were confederal ofiBcsrs, or would have been glad to be?" .. 4

T*s sir. That fact alone would not have settled the matter. Bat he is a •pong*. We regard him as a near approach to a "dead heat." He won't wofl|» and hi trjlugto get a living out ofother people.*4

But T, T. suggested, *Mf he gets OTteatslbe will be obliged to work, and if he deal get eifents he wouldn't do any harm. Would he Ml te led to refem tf adisttttd to the snotoftgr lawit"

Very likely,H aairf the gamlssnait, smiling* "but his character is not lit for the legal profession, and we v«uno& set upaaretormers?"

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Is he intemperate," asked T. T. Probably not. That would be no objection if be were. In fact, we rather prefer a little humain frailty in this direction." A sweet smile played about the lips, as this was uttered.

Is he profane We never inquired about that." "Is be licentious?" Here the chsirman smiled a knowing smile, in which all present joined, and •aid very kindly, "I see my dear T. T. that you are not familiar with tbe views of the legal profession in reference to what constitutes moral character. The legal mind looks at these things from a different standpoint from that of tbe common herd of humanity. Intemperance, profanity, licentiousness, and sueh like do not play a very important part in the morality required for admission to the bar."

T. T. felt very much chagrined that he bad shown himself so very green. The gentlemanly chairman saw his embarrassment, and said, "I suppose you know that Cassil used to run a temperance paper."

T. T. said be did remember this fact, and, in order to restore himself to confidence, added, that ho believed be run it into the ground.

The gentleman smiled and said Yes. But bis sin was in running it above ground. A temperance journal Is an Immoral sheet, and any man who will run one, or attempt to do so, is not lit to be a member of this bar."

Yes, I see," said T. T., and he remembered that he had never before known a lawyer to be guilty of such a thing.

Besides he has been very sctive in the temperance movement here." "But so is Colonel Thompson," suggested T. T.

Yes, yes, we oxpect that from old smooth-bore, anyway. Besides ho was admitted to the bar at an earlier day, wben the rules were not so strict as now, and when the bar had not advanced to the present position of lofty morality.

I see," said T. T. The chairman continued, saying, Cassil may or may not be a dead beat, be may or may not be dishonest, he may or msy not be a liar or a thief, we are not ablle to say about all these matters. But he has been obnoxiously active in the temperance movement, and wo will not be disgraced, nor jeopardize the Interests of innocent men or women who depend upon our noble profession for advico and aid, by having such a man among us. A map who will try to run a temperance paper, and look over petitions for permit to sell liquor to find illegal signatures, and spy out saloon keepers, would not hesitate, w« think, to resort to any low trlok to clear a oriminal from justice no matter how bad and dangerous he might be, nor to take up a case against any man of means for tbe sake of blackmailing him, nor to sell out a client to the opposite party. We are positive that Cassii's moral character" is such that all tbe rules of tbe profession which we regard as strictly binding upon us, would be, or might be, violated. We cannot take the risk. We are acting solely for tbe public good end tbe honor of the profession."

T. T. left with a bow, and with a deep sense of gratitude that a kind providence had given Terre Haute such a bar, and that it had escaped a terrible danger.

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Husks and Nubbins.

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Dr. Clark's book entitled "Sex in Education," recently issued, which combats the idea of the co-education of the sexes, has stirred up a good deal of comment, particularly among the ardent advocate® of woman's higher education. The author adduces some good arguments to show that the very different spheres which men and women have to fill in life oall for a marked difference In education, and that a course of atndy exactly suited to tbe necessities of the boy would be very ill-suited to tbe necessities of the girl. Bnt whether the learned Doctor haa established bis point or not is not what I set ont to consider in'this article, but another phase of the book.

Dr. Clark is especially severe on that etasaofthe human family commonly denominated "old maids." He manifests an unsociable and splenetic disposition towards tbem and appears to have selected them aa the chief etgect of his bitternssa. How His ttese some oee was rising up tor the defence of this maligned and peraeonted class. From time immemorial every man's hand, awl both of w«wsa»S bavebeeo rstssd agsteat the Old utalds. have been snubbed and sneered st with Impunity and until their very name baa become a by-word of reproach. They have been oroelly impaled ta books and alt their fealts and toibefea mercitaMiy depleted while their many good and noble traits bavf been studiously kepi ont of &i«hl. Evan such an admirable author aa Charlotte Bronte ha* stained one of her books

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(her first and crudest, it to say,) with such sentiments as these "Look at the rigid and formal race of old maids—tbe race whom all despise tbey have fed themselves from youth upwards on maxims of resignation and endurance. Many of tbem get ossified with tbe dry diet self-control Is so continually their thought, so, perpetually their object, that at last it absorbs the softer and more agreeable qualities of their nature and they die mere models of austerity, fashioned out of a little parchment and much bone. Anatomists will tell yoa that there is a heart in the withered old maid's carcass—tbe same as In that of any cherished wife or proud mother In the land. Can this be so? I really don't know but feel Inclined to doubt it."

I have always entertained a high, almost extravagant regard for the author of "Jane Byre," and have still but I must confess that when I came on that passage I drew my pencil across it in anger and felt my esteem for Charlotte Bronte sensibly diminish. How could a heart like hers be so coldly *nd deliberately cruel I do not think any respectable writer ef tbe present day would dare to write such a paragraph and have »o doubt that tbe author of it has many a time since wished that it might be blotted out of her book.

What have the old maids done to deserve such treatment? Even if it should be granted that they are such monstrosities (which I am far from doing, for there are among them some of the truest and noblest of women) is it altogether their fault that they are not "cherished wives and proud mothers?" It seems to me that the race of old bachelors is more deserving of this bitter denunciation tban tbe unmarried of the other sex for they could marry if they would. Every blessed one of them could bo the possessor of that luxury termed a "cherished wife" if he would, and us Nature has obligingly arranged it so that about sn equal number of each sex is born into the world, here would be an easy and effectual solution of the old maid problem. But nobody thinks of raising his voice against the old bachelor. Let him be as prickly as a burdock burr, surly and cynical beyond conception, yet ts be treated with a certain respect and deference. His name is associated with warm slippers, cosy rooms and a gruff independence which is the envy and admiration of the apron-stringed benedict.

But after all how much better Is the old bachelor than tbe old maid? If marriage is so good an institution, if to be a wife and mother should be the crowning aspiration of tbe feminine heart, why not saddle the blame of infelicitous oelibacy on tbe back of tbe old bachelors, where it justly belongs, Instead of sending poison-tipped arrows into the camp of the innocent and defenceless

I question whether all these evil utterances, these constant slurs and sneers, have not had a powerful influence in making tbe old maids what they are. "Give a dog a bad name and hang him," says the old proverb. Saying hard things of people has not been found a very successful method of developing their better qualities. I, for my part, have never been able to see why any disgrace or reproach should attach to a woman merely because she remains unmarried. Sbe kaa as much right to do so as any man has and hss not an equal cbanoe with bim of changing her condition even if she were disposed to do so. There is a good deal of fallacy In this constantly Iterated argument that unmarried women are so much worse than their married sisters. Of course it is better on an average for women to marry, bnt there is no good reason why a woman who, for some special and *uftlcient cause, is leading a life of single blessedness msy not be in every respect superior to many that are happily married. It ia true that she haa not the same things to live for exactly, bnt she can find others sufficient to fill her life with a certain subdued foy and beauty. If she have aspiration In any particular direction, sucH aa music, art, lltsrature, she will have opportauity to gratify It which would be denied her in marriage. Many a woman has sacrificed horpoesibUlty of high achievement in order to diachairge tbe duties of a wife and mother. I do net say that sbe waa a loner by doing eo bnt tbe feet shows that there is something to livs for even ontaide of wedlock. n&zfiL

My advice *o the aid maids Is logo on their way In peace and pay no head to the inhuman sneers which are thrown at them to U»« like hoaeet, sensible women, doing with thatr might what their bands fled to do and being aa happy and seJf-satiafied aa any "cherished wife" in the kingdom show thai their life to aotlraly natural and legitimate and be aa independent the moat nneoddled okl bachelor on eitbar eoattaant and my word ferlt this vulgar and uncivilised penweeUoe «f U^jwiU coma toaapeedy tarmiaas-

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TERRE-HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 14, 1874.

People and Things.

Mankind lovea mysteries. Hence a hole In tbe ground excites more wonder than a star in tbe heavens.

It is apparent to a parent that a great many children get on the wreng track because tbe switch is misplaoed.

In Arkansas wben a man walks Into a house and shoots the proprietor and others be Is styled "an Intruder."

Asa Paeker, of Mauch Chunck, Pa., is reported to be worth $25,000,000. He began life ass driver on a canal boat.

If the warfare of the papers be waged with very small jokes, it must be remembered that they're only wee-puns.

The Inventor of metalic rips for children's shoes sold the original patent for $100, and sold its reissue at Boston the other day, for f60,000.

Edwin Booth has been compelled to go into bankruptcy, but his family will not suffer, as he can make $80,000 a year at his profession.

Daring a revival at Green Bay, Wis., a citizen arose and asked to be forgiven for having been a subscriber to the Chicago Times for nineteen years.

Gen. Beauregard lets politics alone, neither drinks, smokes nor obews. and aftends strictly to counting tbe money turned in by the conductors of bis street cars.

At La Crosse, Wis., recently, a man entered a store and inquired the price of a pistol. While examining tbe weapon he slipped in a cartridge and blew bis brains out.

Somebody in a Georgia court "applauded," whereupon the jud (we quote from the Griffin News) indignantly remarked, "Now dry up I will let you know tbls Is no camp-meeting."

A Massachusetts clergyman is requested to resign because he nsed severe language in forbidding some young lambs in his flock to gambol in the "kissing game" called "drop the handkerchief." It has,ended in their dropping him.

Storey, of tho Chicago Times, is said to have become a convert to Spiritualism, and to be developing medlumistic poWfj* bitiftelf. Tbe ftr»t thin* that convinced ktan of tbe wonderful "rappings" was wlien the "blondes" rapped him with a little cowhide.—[pourierJournal.

A gambler recently left the table in thaoapino at Monaco where he bad just lost $100,000, laid down on a couch and shot himself. Tbe game went on with scarcely a moment's interruption, as suoh little eccentricities are not permitted ta disturb the business of an Italian caaino.

Johnny Mathews, To, and the oldest Utiea fireman, died the other night. At bis request they put bis fireman's shirt on. "For," said be, "when the Foreman above oalls through His trumpet for the boys, old Johnny wants to be on band with his red sbirt and fire hat.'

A "Dead Beats' Directory" has been printed snonymously in Chicago. It is intended for tbe nse of boarding-house keepers, grocers, butchers, fcc., and contains tbe names of a thousand men who habitually neglect paying their bills. The list includes lawyers, actors, ministers, aldermen, and officials, and ia to be revised monthly.

A Congressman asked the Inspector General if he had "any idea wnac »ecame of the discrepancy between the number of rations charged to tbe Government and the number actually is auedto the Indians?" The Inspector General replied by aaking, "How can an Indian agent with $1,500 a year make $10,00*, more or lew, after supporting himeel??" j**

ANew York telegraph messenger boy got his dispatohea mixed tbe other day, and banded a jockey a telegram which read: "Can you supply our pulpit next Sonday T" And t« a well known clergyman a dispatch which read: "The race is postponed till Monday. Cant yon oome down and spend Sunday

Pa/* saM aNew Albany boy, "what is Mardi-Clinnl tbey are talking so much about?" "Shrove Tuesday," said the well informed father. "Aud what ia Shrove Tuesday •"Look In the dictionary." The boy looked and aaw

Shrove Taeaday—the Tueaday following qoiaqwmeaitBa Sonday, and preceding Asb Wednesday." Then be knew all about it.

The Pat Men's bait In New York, waa a fonoy affair. The march waa led by aemwM MeOrew, weighing MS pounds, sad

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ery Congreeaman begins his day's labor by giving an order to a messenger henoe the clspping is universal and uproarious. "Weil, that beats me," said an elderly man in the gsllery, with mad on his boots, which looked as though it hsd been brought from the other side of tbe Potomac "I don't see anything in that prayer worth cheering."—[Washington Chronicle.

Feminitems.

Fashionable belles In New York wear a bud on their left shoulder. Missouri maidens think nothing of walking seven miles with their lovers to attend a candy-pull.

Tbe women of Fredonia, N. Y., have opened a reading-room and restaurant, where tbe leading papers and periodicals can be read without charge.

A lady in Washington was recently heard to observe on taking up the morning paper: "I wonder if anybody has been born that I know."

The present passion for roses—artificial rather than natural one#—ms embellishments for ladies' bats, is noticeable. Amid all the other trimmings of a hat tbe rose is sure to appear somewhere.

That Pittsburg Commercial man wakes up to the tuneful remark that the ladles have so many bogles on their dresses that he fears overtures from them. Tho young man should blow his bugle and look sbsrp.

The Jewish Messenger says that although Jewesses can legally vote at Synagogue meetings, none demand the right of sullrage. It adds, "This may be an evidence of the degeneracy of their common sense." "Anonyma," the ambitious correspondent of a Chicago paper, says "women love most in quantity at 25, and in quality at 40 which we take to bo a vile and unprincipled attempt to bull the market on old maids.

Fifty p*irs of sheets that had never \een used, end over $3,000 in gold and silver coin, were found in a chest belonging to the widow of the late Jabes Hubbard of Mlddletown, Conn,, a few days ago, after her death. The money had been lying there for 20 years, and would have amounted to about $12,000, if it bad been put at interest.

A gawky saw, for tbe first time, a school girl going through some of her gymnastic exercises for the amusement of the little ones at home. After gassing on her with looks of interest and commiseration for awile, be asked a boy near by "if tbat gal bad fits?" "No," replied the lad, contemptuously, "that's gymnastics?" "O, 'tis, hey?" said the verdant, "How long has she had them

A witty Cincinnati lady, writing from Washington, says: Boston draws herself up so verely, scans your cerebral developments through her eyeglass, and coolly asks: "What do you know Now York displays her silks and diamonds, and pertly ssks:

What are you worth Philadelphia, with prime hands and pursed-up lips, asks: "Who was your grandfather?" While Washington stops between the waits and the german to Inquire, "Can you dance

It isn't every man who is lucky enough to have the editor of a newspa per for a wife. Mr. Lewis Walker, of Iola, Kansas, enjoys tbat sweet boon. Apprecisting bis modesty, she waited for bis temporary absence, and then brought him out in her newspaper, the Iola

Register, as a candidate for the United States Senate, with a most touching editorial setting forth his honesty, integrity, genius, learning, in corruptibility, special capacity for public affairs. How Mr. Lewis Wslker took this sort of thing when tie got home we are not informed.

Grace Greenwood, in a late letter,describes atypical "poor-white" family of Missouri, careless shiftless, and intolerably lasy, the daughters of which were accustomed to go barefoot till tbe soles of their feet became hard as iron, and then tells this story: "One of these young ladies, on coming home one day from along tramp in tbe rain after tbe cows, was standing on the*hearth drying her clothes, when her old mother drawled out, *8al, tbar's—a—live—coat —under—yer foot.' The girl alightly turned her head, and drawled back: 'Which—foot, mammy

While some fermers were busy with the initiatory steps to organise a Grange, one of them, an elder in the church, by the way, was' asked to join. "I (tint jlae the Orange," said be, grnffly. "lam sorry," waa the reply "we had counted on yon." "No, I can*! jlne," said the voter, "because they've let tbe women in, and they'll work It round so sa to get to vote d*ree1y, and I wont have nnthln'todo srlth ft. The women la gettin' above thair privileges any way. They don't stay at boom enocgb now, a* St. Paul commanded, sod I tell yoa 1 wont hare aotbtn' to do with Granges."

The aeeoonis given by em of oor Washington correspondent* of the fMs of endnraooeof the yonng woman who

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danoe at the "reoeptionr show plainly that the ^Uoe muscles of tbe daughtet try are not to be despn^B* strength expended by suoh exertions, If devo usually followed by out of employment a vented Perfect of the male populathere need be no great among the sterner

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An Iowa engin' lady while waltln* week. It doesn prompt.

The lady who ol| breach of promise sd another at the same urn off for cash,',

One who knows says: "The man who bane to his wife before T7"C? her bane behind their b-y

It is said that two Iov sit up half tbe night wit* chair in the room, but that's plained to any one who has been

A Cincinnati man has married wife's daughter—he was a widowt when the marriage took place—and the mother la still living. Local metaphysicians are studying out tbo tbe prob Iem.

A clergyman proposes the abolition of golden, silver, tin, wooden and all other weddings, and tbe substitution therofor of an anniversary renewal of the fee to the minister who officiated at the original ceremony.

A New York doctor says tbat the heart Is capable of beating 3,127 times per hour, but we don't believe it. We never hesrd it sung in any of the songs that "this heart, my dear Susan, beats 3,127 times an hour for thee."

A clergyman in Hasleton, Pa., lately married his 990th couple, and deemed the fact Important enough to be announced in the local newspaper. He, perhaps, thought some pair emulous of the distinction of being No. 1,000 might come forward.

A little knot of ladles were discussing the subject of marrlsge. One of tbo party, a single young lsdy, said: "Matches are made in Heaven." "Very likely," was the quick rejoinder of a msrrled lsdy, "and tbey are often dipped in the other place."

Tbe most artful dodger Is a married man who lives in this city. He points with pride to the shattered wall opposite bis sest st tbe breakfast, table where the tea-cups, salt-cellars and slop-bowls tbst she heaved at blm struck.—[Brooklyn Argus.

A returned soldier at Northampton, Mass., swears that be saw ie following Inscription on a brown slab above tho grave of a deceased wife in White-river region of Arkansas during bis campaigns:

Sbe washed tbe children, fed the fowls, And ma4e her borne resound wltb howls. A Boston paper thinks that tbe man who* plunged beneath tbe ice and saved a lady from drowning, in that State recently, should be rewarded with tbe lady'a band. Let tbe man aooept such a reward,and half the unmarried women In Massachusetts will be under tbe ice within feur-and-twenty-boors.

Wben a man goes out after supper to attend to some very important business which detains him nntil after midnight It Is no reaeon tbat his loving and feHbful wife should accuse blm of playing billiards, just because be hss chalk all over hie sleeve. [An elderly man wanted us to put something of this kind in.

Tbe young lad&S of New Albany having formed an association whose members are pledged not to receive attentions from young men who either drink, amoks, chew or swear, tbe gentlemen have organised an Aati-P Society binding themselvea not to visit any lady who either pouta, paints,p*ds, powdera or primpa. Between the two we jodge that all further communication between tbe sexes in tbat city will csase.—[In4. Journal.

A trial that will he watched with pant interest by henpecked husbands It soon to take place at Baltimore. A woman of that city baa been arrested on the charge of being a common scold. The laws of Maryland make no provision for the punishment of such an ogboee, and she Is to be tried under the old English common law. This defines such an offence aa common, barratry, and providea, as ooe of the mesnaof paniebment, "boring a hols through tbe tongue."