Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 4, Number 33, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 February 1874 — Page 2

Vol. 4—No.

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THE MAIL.

Office, 3 South 5th Street.

DOLORES.

BY K. 8. HOI'S 1X8.

KImIdk her bands I gased upon ber face, Clasped snd unclasped them, crowed them Into place, old a* the mow god's frozen into stone. Felt there no heart-throb leap Into mine own. Grew chttl sunlight over icy land, twlng her hands. In dreams I clasp the bands so dear to m*. Dreams of sweet pain beside a boundless Witheatter langh I shade my hungpr eyra. Mocks the white sea foam In the angry Leaps the wild billow from the quivering """^kissing her hands. ]?RAIfKLl!, Ind., Feb. 9.1W4.

Town-Talk.

OUR CHURCH

Hold very interestingservlcealast Sunday evening, conducted by our beloved psator, Rev. Jaraes Hook. Fiske was present and made some disturbance by demands to be permitted to measure theohalns with which Laura Morgan was fastened. Of course his request was not granted. When we had the chain just right so that the spirits could ma terialize, we were not going to have the conditions violated. Our dear pastor very kindly offered to let Fiske measure the chains all day Monday. No unprejudiced mind could fail to see that the persecuted shepherd of tbis flock «u perfectljr^jonest, and extremely anxious for ^thorough investigation. T. T. beard some insiduous remarks by members of the congregation about

DBAOON MOROAN'8 8WJ3ARINO in tbo pulpit. It is true, that when Fiske insisted upon measuring the obain with which tbis goedly and loving fetber had bound bis child, Deacon Morgan did May, "By G—d you sbant do It." But it must be remembered that this was said while Brother Morgan was assisting in conducting religious services, and such language is customary and allowable in the pulpit. All the clergymen ttse language of this kind when in dlsehage of their official duties. It is not profanity but an expression of religious fervor, earnestness and honesty. If skeptics cannot tolerate in us what they constantly hear in theother churches, they had better stay away.

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have bad a narrow escape. They came witbln an ace of having an immoral man among them. It really makes one shudder to think bow near the Terre Haute bar came to contamination. But when a bad man comes into the company of the good the oonllict of moral and immoral forces* renders the pure conscious of the approach of impurity. So was it when Harry Cassll appeared ou Wall street and in the Court lioom. The purity and Innocence of the legal profession felt a shock at once acid the lawyors know that a discordant element had intruded upon them. They immediately inquired "Why is this thai nnd learned that Jonah Gassil— commonly called Harry—was the cause. They at once wltli remarkable courage, and with a holiness of purpose seldom witnessed in this frail world, determined to throw this modern Jonah overboard or perish in the attompt. T. T. interviewed some members of the bar, and perhaps the public will be Interested in a few of tbe questions and an swers.

T, T. having carefully washed his own bands that he might not pollute tbe band of innocence, in exchanging the common drllities, made his way to Wall street and, having found where the Guardians of Purity were holdings meeting, entered, and with a polite smile introduced himself, and made known Ma buainess. He was assured that they were ready to open their im macula to bosoms to public inspection.

T. T. turned blandly to tbe chairman of the meeting and asked, "What are some of the reasons for objecting to the admission to the bar of'Mr. Oassil?" The chairman replied, "Mr, Caasil's moral character is not such that it safe to trust the interests of justice in his hands."

Wherein is it defective,? asked T. T. O sir, in many resets. For one thing b* »u a confederate officer."

So I have heard, but have you not mem ben of the bar who were confederal officers, or would have been glad to bet"

Tea sir. That fact alone would not have nettled the matter. But he la a sponge. We regard him as a near approach to a "dead beat." He won't work, and to trying to get a living out of other people."

But," T. T. suggested, "if be gets ftllentslhe will be obliged to work, and if be den*t get client* be w«»ldn*t do any harm. Would he net be led to reform tf admiu*d to the soototjr of lawyers?''

Very likely," said the gentleman, smiling* *%nt his character is not fit for the legal jarofesaloo, and we cannot aet up as reformers?"

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 be profane We never inquired about that." Is he licentious Here the chairman smiled a knowing smile, in which all present joined, and said very kindly, "I see my dear T. T. that you are not familiar with the 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 the common herd of humanity. Intemperance, profanity, licentiousness, and such 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 he did remember this fact, and, in order to restore himself to confidence, added, that ho believed he run it into the ground.

The gentleman smiled and said "Yes. But his 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 fit 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 active in the temperance movement here." But so is Colonel Thompson," suggested T. T.

Yes, yes, we expect that from old smooth-bore, anyway. Besides he was admitted to the bar at an earlier day, when 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. Tbe chairman continued, saying, Cassil may or may not be a dead beat, be may or may not be dishonest, he may or may not be a liar or a thief, we are not able to say about all these matters. But he has been obnoxiously active in the temperance movement, and we will not be disgraced, nor jeopardize the interests of innocent men or women who Oepend upon our noble profession for advice 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«j think, to resort to any low trick to clear a criminal from justice no matter how bad and'dangerous he might be, nor to take up a case against any man of means for the sake of blackmailing him, nor to sell out a cli ent to the opposite party. We are pos ittve that Cassirs moral character* is such that all tbe rules of the 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 and tbe honor of the profession."

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

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OU) MAIDS.

Dr. Clark's book entitled "Sex in Education," recently isaued, which combats the idea of the co-education of tbe sexes, has stirred up a good deal of comment, particularly among the ar dent advocates of woman's higher ed ucation. The author adduces some good arguments to show that tbe very different spheres which men and women have to fill in life call for a marked difference In education, and that a course of study exactly suited to tbe necessities of the boy would be very ill-salted to the necessities of the girl. But whether the learned Doctor hss established his point or not Is not what I set out toeonsider in'thia article, bnt another phase of the book.

Dr. Clack is especially severe on that class of the human family commonly denominated "old maids." He man ifests an unamiable and splenetic disposition towards themand appears to have selected them as the chief object of his bitterness. Sow His time some one was ritisft up for tbe dsfenoe of this maligned and persecuted clans. Prom time immemorial every man's hand, and both of woman's, bare been raised against1 U»e old maids, flwqr have been snubbed and sneered at with impunity and until their very name has become a by-word of reproach. They have been cruelly impaled In books and all their faults and fotbetcs mercitaMiy depicted while their many good and noble traits bay) been studiously kept oat of slxhC **Evea sach an admirable author as Charlotte Bronte has 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—the race whom all despise they have fed themselves from youth upwards on maxims of resignation and endurance. Many of them get ossified with the dry diet self-control is so continually their thought, so, perpetually their object, that at last it absorbs the softer and more sgreeable qualities of their nature and they die mere models of austerity, fashioned out of a little parchment and much bone. Anatomists will tell you that there is a heart in the withered old maid's carcass—the same as in that of any cherished wife or proud mother in tbe 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 Eyre," 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 of the present day would dare to write such a paragraph and have ho doubt that the author of it has many a time since wished that it might be blotted ont 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 than the unmarried of the other sex for they could marry if they would. Every blessed one of them could be the possessor of that luxury termed a "cherished wife" if he would, and rtS Nature has obligingly arranged it so that about an 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. LrfJt him be as prickly as a burdock burr, surly and cynioal ba^ yond conception, jtet Ts be treated wiHi 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 the old maid? If marriage is so good an institution, if to be a wife and mother shouid be the crowning aspiration of the feminine heart, why not saddle the blame of infelicitous celibacy on tbe back of the old bachelors, where it justly belongs instead of sending poison-tipped arrows into tbe oamp of tbe innocent and defenceless

I question whether all these evil utterances, these constant slurs and sneers, have not had a powerful infiu ence in making the old maids what they are. "Give a dog a bad name and hang him," says tbe old proverb. Say ing 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. She has as much right to do so as any man has and has «o an equal chance with him of chang ing ber condition even if she were dis posed 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 oourse it is better on an average for women to marry, but there is no good reason why a woman who, for some special and sufficient cause, is leading a life of aingle blessedness may not be in every respect superior to many that axe happily married. It ia true that she has not the same things to live for exactly, but she can find others sufficient to fill her life with a certain sub dued joy and beauty. If ahe have as pi ration in any particular direction, such as music, art, literature, she will have opportunity to gratify it which would be denied her in marriage. Many woman baa sacrificed ber possibility of high achievement in order to discharge tbe duties of a wife and mother. I do not bay that she was a loser by doing so bnt tbe fa* shows that there is something to live for even outside of wedlock.

My advice to tbe old maids is to go on their way in peace and pay no heed to the inhuman sneers which are thrown at them to liVe like honest, sensible women, doing with their might what their hands find to do and being aa happy and

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"cherished wife" In tbe kingdom show that their life to entirely natural and legitimate and be aa independent as the most nneoddled old bachelor on either continent and aay word fcr it this vulgar and uncivilised peiaeeution of them will come to a speedy terrainn-

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Victoria Woodbnll" to tbo anew brand of Pittsburg whieky.

People and Things.

Mankind loves mysteries. Hence a hole in the ground excites more wonder than a star in tbe heavens.

It is apparent to a parent that a great many children get on the wrong track because the switch is misplaced.

In Arkansas when a man walks into a house and shoots the proprietor and others be is styled "an intruder."

Ana Packer, of Mauch Chunck, Pa., is reported to be worth $25,000,000. He began life as a 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 reissuo at Boston the other day, for 160,000.

Edwin Booth hss been compelled to go into bankruptcy, but bis family will not suffer, as be 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 chews, and attends strictly to counting the money turned in by the conductors of bis street cars.

At La Crosse, Wis., recently, a man entered a Btore and inquired the price ot a pistol. While examining the weapon he slipped in a cartridgo and blew bis brains out.

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

A Massachusetts clergyman is requested to resign because ho used se vere language 5n forbidding some young lambs in his flock to gambol in the "kissing game" called "drop the handkerchief." It has ended in their dropping him.

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Storey, of tho Chicago Times, is said to have become a convert to Spiritual ism, and to le developing raediumlstic powers bloptelf. Tbe first Utfng that convinced fctan of the wonderful "rappings" was wlien the "blondes" rapped him with a little cowhide.—[CourierJournal.

A gambler recently left the table in thecals no at Monaco where he had Just lost $100,000, laid down on a couch and shot himself. The game went on with scarcely a moment's Interruption, as such little eccentricities aro not permitted te disturb the business of an Italian casino.

Johnny Mathews, 75, and the oldest Utfoa fireman, died the other night. At bis request they put his fireman's shirt on. "For," said he, "when the Foreman above calls through His trumpet for the boys, old Johuny wants to be on hand with his red abirt and fire hat.'

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

A Congressman asked the Inspector General if be had "any idea what be oame of the discrepancy between the number of rations charged to tbe Government and the number actually tosued to the Indians?" The Inspector Genoral replied by aaking, "How can an Indian agent with $1,500 a year make $10,009, more or less, after supporting himself?"

A New York telegraph messenger boy got bis dispatches mixed the other day and handed a jockey a telegram which read: "Can you supply our pulpit next Sundsy V* And t« a well known clergyman a dispatch which read "Tbe race to postponed till Monday, Can't you oome down and spend Sun day?"

Pa," said aNew Albany boy, "what to Manfi-Orss they are talking so much about?" "Shrove Tuesday." said the well informed father. "And what to Shrove Toeaday "Look in the dictionary." The boy looked and saw

Shrove Taesday—the Tuesday following Qntequageeima Sunday, and preceding Ash Wednesday." Then he knew all about it.™.

Tbe Fat Men's ball in New York, was a fanny affair. The march waa led by Samuel MeGraw, weighing 3GS pounds, and fcto lady of very email build. Tbe largest lady ia tbe room waa aacbool teacher, who weighed 209 pounds avoirdupois just pre vies* to entering ber carriage to go to tbe ball. She waa mock admired, and floated in tbe roaay polka.cedowm aa If ahe were a

Aa soon aa tbe tVwgiosslnnal chapla demUi appeal to tbe Throne of Gr-«e, there toa dapping of himdsall evac rite floor. It to the way membere have of calling pages to U»eir aide. Ev­

ery Congressman begins his day's labor by giving an order to a messenger hence the clapping to universal and uproarious, "Well, that beats me," said an elderly man in tbe gallery, with mud on his boots, which looked as though it had been brought from the other side of the 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 oandy-pulL

The 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 ones—as embellishments for ladies' bats, is noticeable. Amid all the other trimmings of a hat the rose is sure to appear somewhere.

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

The Jewish Messenger says that although Jewesses can legally vote at Synagogue meetings, none demand the right of sutlrage. 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 40which we take to bo a vile and unprincipled attempt to bull the market on old maids.

Fifty ptirs of sheets that had never "been used, and over $3,000 in gold and silver coin, were found in a chest belonging to tbe widow of the late Jabe* Hubbard of Middletown, 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 the first time, a school girl going through some of her gymnastic exercises for the amusement of the little ones at home. After gazing on her with looks of interest and commiseration for awile, he asked a boy near by "if that gal had 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 severely, scans your cerebral developments through her eyeglass, and coolly asks: "What do you know Now York displays her silks and diamonds, and pertly asks

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

It isn't every man who to lucky enough to have the editor of a newspaper for a wife. Mr. Lewis Walker, of Iola, Kansas, enjoys that sweet boon Appreciating his modesty, she waited for bis temporary absence, and then brought him out in ber newspaper, the Iola Regtoter, 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 Walker took this sort of thing when be got home we are not informed.

Grace Greenwood, in a late letter, describes a typical "poor-white" family of Missouri, careless shiftless, and in tolerably laay, tbe daughters of which were accustomed to go barefoot till the eotes of their feet became hard as iron and then tells this story: "One of tbese young ladies, on coming home one day from a long tramp In the rain after tbe oows, was standing on tbe* hearth drying her clothes, wben ber old mother drawled out, 'Sal, tbar's—a—live—coal —under—yer foot.' Tbe girl aligbtly tnrned ber head, and drawled back: •Which—foot, mammy

While some Carmen were busy With tbe initiatory steps to organise a Grange, one of them, an eider in tbe church, by tbe way, waa asked to join. «I can't jiae tbe Orange," said be, gruffly. "I am sorry," waa the reply "we bad counted oa yon." "No, I can't line," said tbe voter, "because they've tot .the WOMB Is* and they'll work it round so as to get to vote d'rec*ly, and I won't have netbia* to do with it. Tbe women to geClin' above their privileges any way. They don't stay at borne enough now, as 8t. Panl commanded, and tell yon 1 wont have notbin' to do with Granges."

The aoeonata given by one of offir Washington correspondents of tbe feats of endurance of tbe yonng women who

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dance at the "reception? show plainly that the muscles of the daugbtet' try are not to be desp strength expended by such exertions, if devo usually followed by id out of employment a of tbe male popula there need be no great among tbe sterner st man will, she will an she wont aud she work.—[Conr. Jour.

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Nellie Grant ack. gagement, and will spring.

It is affirmed thi will soon lead Miss 1

hymeneal altar. A Kansas couple pi fee in butter. They, cremede la creme.

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em novel.] That to any young man An Iowa engin* lady while waitinweek. It doesn't. prompt.

The lady who ol breach of promise st. another at the same um off for cash.

One who knows says: "The uian who bane to his wife before ber bano behind their b-t

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

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A Cincinnati man has married wife's daughter—be was a widowi wben the marriage took place—and the mother is still living. Local metaphysicians are studying out tbo the problem.

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

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

A clergyman in Hasleton, Pa., lately married bis 930th oonple, and deemed tho 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 ladies were discussing the subject of marriage. One of tho party, a single young lady, said: "Matches are made in Heaven." "Very likely," was the quick rejoinder of a married lady, "and they are often dipped In the other place."

The most artful dodger is a married man who lives in tbis city. He points with pride to tbe shattered wall opposite bis seat at tbe breakfast tub Jo where the tea-cups, salt-cellars and slop-bowls that she heaved at hltn struck.—[Brooklyn Argus.

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

She washed tho children, fed tbo fowls, And made her home resound with howls. A Boston paper thinks that tbe man who plunged beneath the Ice and saved a lady from drowning, In that State recently, should be rewarded with tbe lady's hand. Let tbe man accept sucb a reward,and half tbe unmarried women in Massachusetts will be under tbe ice within f«ur-and-twenty-honrs.

Wben a man goes out after supper to attend to some very important business which detains him until after midnight it to no reason that his loving and faithful wife should accuse blm of playing billiards, just because he has chalk alt over bis sleeve. [An elderly man wanted us to put something of tbrs kind in.

Tbe young ladies of New Albany having formed an association wboee members are pledged not to receive attentions from yonng men who either drink, smoke, chew or swear, tbe gentlemen have organised an Aati Society binding themselves not to visit any lady who either pouts, paint*,p*ds, powders or primps. Between tbe two we judge that all farther communication between the sexes In tbst city will oeaae.—[Ind. Journal.

A trial that will be watched with great interest by henpecked husbands to soon to take place at Baltimore. A woman of that city baa been ai rested on tbe charge of being a common scold. Tbe laws of Maryland make no provision for tbe punishment of ancb an offence, and she to to be tried under the old English common law. This defines each an ofTenee as common barratry, and provides, as one of the means of pontobment. "boring a hoto throe®* the tongne."

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