Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 4, Number 47, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 May 1874 — Page 4

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THE MAIL|

A PAPfR FOR THE P» '»»t%

P, S. WESTFALL, SPITGB AK» PBOPWCTOC

TKRKE HAUTE, MAY », 1874.

TWO vniTioxs

OftfetaP**«r«»| W«M. Tha FIRS* RWTIOK, ©a FrMay I iMit rhrcttlatfcm In U* »um~uiun« town*, it sold by «MBW*b»r» and •cent*. tiw BBODNt* 1*T TTtON, on Saturday Evening, get* ia* uwbarais of near** av««T reading person In th* etty, and tha fe"» thtatmiaar

BwnrV^ta if* TWO XBWWAPWW, III wfcMh Oi AityrttoMMii appsar in

ONE CHAWCiK-

TOT vmsmsrETTLR ifiiwMi inrnfr? tha sentiment® of in thecomft^yaliiiAaneaaalw^ba

»wy inanity when

monopoly of this peculiar iue*n»»«tt. Now, Mr*. John Smith," of whom theoainimytty expected bitter things, with slow and seurrlloas at: kuj»On one of the otty church** and Its j^ or.

A* large number of oar readers never me Ike Exiwess, we thought it but just to them that the above gentle admonition should appear iu the column* ol The Mall. The passage needs a little elucidation, however, and as we have bestowed considerable thought upon IU order to extract from it as much instruction and personal profit as possible, we will give the results of our research.

And we will say Just here, that, had the Express aimed Its -words of wisdom and admonition at our correspondent we should not have felt called upon to ponder them so deeply or draw out their lesson her* She sterna tally able to tekn eare of herself and beddes w# do not agree with all the sentiments expressed in her letter, nor fully approve its spirit. But the Express, who* editor is fcmniar with the ruleaof journal­

ism

and so cannot be mistaken, makes us responsible for what a correspondent writes, as its editor always holds himaetf responsible for all the sentimenle of the correspondents «f the Express. This madeit obr duty to bestow our meditations upon this loving reminder of duty,

At first, as an oraonlar allusion wa» made to "& ar^tMn«at ofevery decent and woman," we thought it was an offense against decency that the Express was rebuking. But we remembered its Sunday issues, in one of which appeared the affidavits in the attack upon Dr. Stone, and its fall report of a visit to the houses of prostitution in the clt^, dcslg' nating their locality and giving tha "in terviews" with their frmates, §nd such nif» articles, and we saw at once that it could not be any offense against decey cy that had wonnded its sensibilities.

Our next thought was that it was dis pleased at something unfair towards the churches and minister*. But we then remembered that, until The Mail took up the matter, the Express was accustomed almost daily to offend needlessly the feelings of the chureh people, misrepresenting their views and their acta, even attacking to sneering sqniba the women. And although, after The Mail undertook the task of replying to its misrepresentations aad thereby incnrred its wrath, the Express opened iia "Panic's Column," and transferred to it such editorial matter against th* chniphes, ministers aad the christian religion generally as ita editor deaiffed to pobiiaj* but was unwilling to beheld responsible tor,

yet we

no*

«mld not think that fcwaa

an offeree against the ehurch or mintetry that had aw®wd ita indignattoh. Evidently Aen la no love between the editor of that pap^andtheehnrohes.

Next though* that the B*j*wa intended to «mmam the "aanooywous slanderers." But it cannot be the slanderers, nor yet the derci*,'*a»d not even the «a»wK»f»o» siandenM*" who make "lowandaenrrnous attack*" npon the cburoboa and mtalstetai fbr it gives a witoli eolninn every Sunday to ••Splinters" «f Marshall, who, for "tow and nonflew taeks** upon churehaatfnlufcitor*and W* en* aenevnUy. hm no sepal not only among the coneapondant* of Hie Mall, but none among the eootrlWlots to any rsroectablQ newspaper in tbestato. On thafH9 day wbenthe minWer o* tbeStendhtfl dw«liiiWMwi it*one*»f the pulpits of thla city, an "tterly W representation waa mad the 4 wait waa mai* tfca ofUnr, the part of the to comet his miarepre* station »f could be convlwwd that he mkmnderstood the man g*vr him his ln«rmatkm. He would eor^ his fahehood tf ha «mki he eonvtoead the* b* nevert nMlt. Ttr*-'^'"neofman.).

It is t.,/. theae "tu^dcr. to whom thefSxpvwol^aela. lils not "anonynooa alandatwra.** It ts not ««anc»nymMHisiaadc who

w.i-ke

ug mot

it

bljr dons ar«*^"!»eaoL

tow and

aeorrt* vtpm. ^he chnrr*** Bvldently the B»rr--s In an ha A an Should bo I«t to t! if ft** *»*$ *1"^ iii own be in ffrwn «a*««dn« peh-

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THAI' uS£JXAJf€aB ONCM MORA The city council last Toeaday evening passad an ordinance fixing to* fox setting liquor under pwmits at|M)0, and m»vt«ig Hie duty of the municipal officers to aea that the law is enforced. Contrary to the advice of The Mail the petty in the council, ra» fused to join in so reasonable aa action aa this, and persistently voted against evevy section of the ordinance, aad flailing to defeat it, attempted to defer the tt«yn when it should go Into ferce till the first of January. This must therefore be regarded dmply aa a victory on the part of the temperance people who made this the issue in the last city ejection. It la a complete victory, tor it seearea all tor which the temperance people contended. They went into the campaign on the demand ibr an ordinance requiring a fee and the enforcement of the law, and thia they

now

have-

Thc

jtfiifl |g the only paper that advocated thla action, the others being non-com ndttal. Although we think the fee should have been fixed at 500, many of the lkjnor aelloia themselvea preferred, and pat in force at once, jsb* we are well satisfied with the action of the council. If the ordinance is enforced, it will bring quite a revenue to the city treasury and will rid the city of many of the worst class of saloons within its limits. That It will be enforced there can be little doubt. Evidently the Mayer would not have given it the deciding vote unless he had fully made up kis mind to make deeds and vote correspond. He certainly is too wise a man to brave the anti-teuiperance sentiment by such a vote, and then bring down upon himself the opposition of the temperanco party by allowing the ordinance to be a "dead letter.** And the members of the police force hold their places at the will of the council which haa passed the ordinance, and they are next going to ran the risk of losing their official heads by neglecting ita requirements. By all means give the city one year of strict enforcement of this law, and let us see whether it bo good oar bad, a promoter or destroyer of peace, order and sobriety. Dont fail to try It on gentlemen.

OKI. O. O. HOWARD has been perrist* ently attacked by a certain class of men and papers in the country from the close of the war to the present time. Charge after charge has been made against him.: The reports of committees vlndltating him have been received by his en«mlos «"wMi«w*rtdngJoba»Haiidtheehargee repeated as positively aa WW. finally tfcey auoeeeded in getting him before a military ttitamd. Court martiala, with me* stem ol? warden aa Gen. Sherman «u»d the others whoownpoaad thiseonrt, are not much given to "whitewashing." And certainty they wwnki not be much inclined to let an offender off becanse of his "Christian charactcr." Yet tl.i«

tqIh* of him, and I court acquits Howard, five to four, those by an {voting to aeqnlt being Gens. Sherman, Meigs and Reynolds, and Col. Miles.

And the question upon which the other .«,r differed from tho majority waa not me of moral guilt, but whetlwr Howard should be held responsible for Um cawleaaneea or dishonesty of some of his snbordinateS. The moral e^saractor of 0*0. Howard completely vindicated by the verdtet of a court which was foil? competent to try hi* case nnd whk* t»ahova«wf««»on aa toUa i*»«*y

Bat it dt

meat peopt* wonid have ^adto ssabt-th pat' «toitl'nltrtt h-.mww ,^•-*-1-. -f evi*". •'af ba'.'-- hi th* i"^in ha Uh:*im

The

to a

vaspr«rt»- *tW

Pa^e nay have thoir

Mnnfthe ahtttty.tarta, g«» l«r

own vi' badaeaae, «»r

the "Christian aoldter," bet they cannot, 1 wtth any feii noss, make Inrinuatiom or umnm agilttsl hi® thunwiwr tohctv| In hb.official aootw

Iri

i' la aMMA

iww QmnHimMi

ee„J. At all4o*ith»

wnaiahave bwnpwtty Wahopathay^ »«aini .. rtty to tha end of ther team.

m^} patht. 5 Good sense, education, skill, snoona sobriety, carefcl attention to business, are all of no value In a doctor if he belongs to the wrong pathy. If he belongs to tha right pathy, th© lack of any or all of these, is of no consequence. Now it

Tnx ladlee are working hard at the petitions for permit* to dell liquor which ate to come beforc tho Commissioners at the next session. Hie Auditor's office during the week, has had the appearance af esewing circle, scone dozen or fifteen ladles being present copying the names signed to petitions. This is their strong hold. It is work which ought to be done, and whioh the ladies can do with perfect propriety. If the petitions ar? all right no one will object. If, howev er, zealous opponents of the Baxter bill •ign petitions for parties out of their wards, or if minow affix their signatures, or if names are forged, the feet should be known, and proper action taken. The Commissioners would find it difficult to go thoroughly through all this work but they will hardly refuse to notic defects brought to their attention. Evidently there is to be nc fooling in this matter this time L? all pnrtiew firmly by the law, and present state of public feeling, it probaall will bo well. The temperance people we believe do, only demand a (fair and Impartial enforcement of the law, and tho Commissioners are bound by their honor and oath of office jo sea that this la secured. No offioials havo discretionary power in reference 'o which laws shall, and which shall not I'd enforced, and we do not believe that a majority of the County Coromiast?nw» will attempt, or ev®n will and pleasure in the place So between the actio® of the tates .' tbefetthfulneea of theCbmmiss'ef' folly expect, th^ no permHa liquor business will be illegally tained.

TERRE TTATTTE SATURDAY ifiVJiiNlNG MAIL.

H»t two who were of the ortho­

dox nathy were put upon the Board of Health in this city, with one of the wrong pathy, and the two could not caroyHromise theiir-digutty and the of their profession by smelling out dirty alleys and diaeaaa-breeding pools and pig pena, in company with an

Mir-

regular,'1 and so they elevated their loftily, and retired from the position of guardians of public health. And in consequence of their action three thoroughly educated and successful physicians, with a large practice, butawful to relate—'irregular," cowAitute the Board of Health for this city. And what makes this case peculiarly aggravating, la the feet that the sickly season hi Just approaching. The Bnard of Health, aa at present formed, consists of one Eclectic, which means a physician who peeks out anything which he thinks will cure—an awful sin in the medical profession—and two Hoineopathist, who kill or cure by means ol little pllla Instead of big ones, or a few drops of pleas-ant-tasting poisons, instead of a bowl fall of thesame drugs so concocted that that they turn the patients wrong side out before they kill or cure. It is fearflil to think what terrible evils may come upon our city under such management, It must be remembered that the chief duty of these officials Is not to treat diseases, but to prevent them by indicating their sources. How can an "Eclec tic" know what alleys need cleaning, or what stinks are injurious to health And the Homeopaths will probably attempt to clean up the alleys, pig sties, rtc,, by simply letting their shadows fell upon them.' It is awftil to think what may come upon ns with men

bly would not render aid to this or any other road, even if the public good demanded it. It is a bad year for railt©a«3R,:

Hub over that dig! We pardon the Re publican the slighting allusion to the %«gion of tha Wabash," of which we oGr%*%ined last week. And by tho way, it & not be generally known that this Mi1. |farris, the superintendent of the pu&& schools of St. Ixmis is in feet one of tf«d best superintendents of the coun try, and, at th© same time, one of the moat profound metaphysicians to be found either East or West. He is yet young man, but he has a high reputa don as a metaphysician even in Germany. Mis Journal of Philosophy, publish ed at St. Louis, Ma no superior in its way. y^

MOHAMMED was a wwtotaiier, ann mere am no saloon* iu, the lantf fl* {Klpr«MU g*

Thia is popmaf Impi'Wsidon, but mistaken one. Only the day before our eye fell upon the above assertion Ui tho Kxprees, we were in compenjr with a lady who has spent fifteen years in the "land of Moslem," and the conversation turned upon the drinking habit* of the followers of Mohammed* She said they 8d wit follow the principles of the found er of their religion,but dmnk a great de#il. Even tha Sultan himself is known to •fHink to exoeaa. And aa lor saloons, -l« said that the goveiwaettt,foT tha sake .of tha lies*** wto» ahopa, and I the reeult had been a laigo imcream of

Intnkennees and crime. of

ao fer aa!

*1 right for the city council to and aeononlas aa sanah «s Is nt wttfe the wrtfere of th""i not sasas to ns artas tovaraaasnt Tltem iiEre#*«na in which economy facl tl ith kas danger to ri-sit if tin1 oly.

««m aU right ii of eoMKimy.

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Q»» oonnctl man, who opposed the ordinance exacting a fee, thought there would not be modi revenue coming fmm It, and much liquor drank rvW. That la tha way those who }atm that rights tm fntorfered with by totopeiaace legW«aon always

.wmmuBeamsaaamt

Ttm temperance people havfiMfS^red the os«lit«ea fer whkh they coptatid. ed must keep the preaswe on which vrtUdeflMaditejaifenNnmt. Tl»aaa«a rabUc sentiment which aaeniad the law ^eciM^a siriei fir o'snlinnes to make itself heard and Mi.

Tsi new seems to be In a^»4

A no®* of water, in Msssartmmtts, covering more than one hundred acrea, to the depth of 80 feet, broke through ita dam and swept away houasa, (Mortw, villages and towns in the valley below it, last Saturday. It waa one of the moat terrible calamities thai could be imagined. This vast body of water went seething and roaring down tha valley at the rata of twenty miles an hour, and 140 killed, besides the vast amount of property destroyed. Many people went insane in consequence, and tha papers have been Alletjwltb deeeriptiona of heart-rending aoanea which oo» comd. The reality in thia case is mora terrible than the Action ol Charles

Reade, who describee, in one of hia works, a similar cataatfo^he^^^.# It la said that "a man on horsctmck tve warning through the upper half the valley, bot tom* would and una tamed to their to the great fiurtoriea for maa at the HaydenvtUe aaved his Ufa by •ticking to the houae. but he was a marveloa* exoepUon. He ran into

must

such

pathies on the Board of-Health.

Wo

be all dead men. Cannot something be done to give ua orthodox guardians of the sanitary condition of the city,? The degeneracy of the times is foarfUl to con template.

Tub Northern Pacific railroad is ask ing aid of Congress Hgain. It desires the government to guarantee the interest upon anew five per cent, bond, and offen in return for thia feyor to surrender to the government its net earnings and all income from sale of lands, to give a first mortgage bond of the road, and to permit Congress to regulate freights and feres. The popular clamor against monopolies, and especially against railroads at the present time would probably prevent the granting of this request, even though it were in reality as fair and safe as it soemS to be. From giving to every road that asked for nid, without any guarantees good for stuy thing, the pendulum of legislation has swung to the ither extreme of giving to no road no ic-Atter how deserving or how many and good the guarantees. We do not know that Congress ought to aid this read, but are only saying that, in the

more"

Springfield Republican, after al-

ludir to some changes made in the pubi schools of Boston, says, "Now, if Boston could send to St. Louis, and bornvw Mr. Harris, the superintendent

to 'rrat there, she might hope, In a few years, to have a school system worthy her ambition and her vanity." And this is no joke, but all in sober earnest. Only think of the gnashing of teeth in the

not

«*flrty. feetoty

closet that stood aaalturt the mat chimney of a factory, andwhea^ the fectory.was crushed the chimney stood, and his cioset stock to It like a lantern s«a!nst a wall with him, waving his arm for help, out of a breach he made in its wails. But a man and a girl who ran out at the roar of the waters, ran back for a haven of safety,

and

be near

of

weat

down under the building. At Williamsburg, a factory and twtwity-seven houses ware blotted out at Haydten vllle. a factory, a sas-heuee, a cotton mill, a bank, and one hundred dwelling

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handred dwellings at L««is, a bottoa fec»ry andtwsnty-flve buildings atfiklnnerille every house is gone except Mr. Skinner* own. Such housesss are here ""down as "tfone," are utterly vanished or distributed Hi shrads, not a pieoe over six feet long, over miles of country, remaining." "One poor follow worked alone for an hour around the wreck of his own house, which was carried away a hair mile from Its place. He lifted up the boards and timbers very carefully, peering inside them so anxiowdv that a throng soon assembled around to watch his movements. "I'm huntingfor my wife," be said, when questioned, •'she was in the houae when the Apod came, tutd she

lory and twsnty-

it

now." Those who tried

to help him were scarcely able to do so, be-, cause he would have Mich board lifted ss carefully as though the body lay below. Ho worked until late in the afternoon before he learned that the body was among those ibund on Warren's Flat, miles below."

Editorial Correspondence.

WAsinNotbS, Monday. May 18th. A good honest soul once said all she wanted when she got to heaven was "to put on a clean apron and sit still." After all, the idea is more profound t-byn funny. There are times in every one's life when this would be the em bodiment of paradise. When the head throbs with planning, contriving and directing when having done one's best to draw a focus all the inflnitessimal oobweb threads of careful management, some new emergency is born of every last attempt, till each nerve and muscle cries out with the old woman for heaven and a clean apron.

It was with much such feeling that the editor of this paper after three years of constant toil, on last Thursday morning, at Indianapolis joined the party of Indiana editors on the excursion to the seaboard cities. A pleasant morning ride over the I. C. & L.

R. R.

landed us

in Cincinnati, where the afternoon was spent, and at ten o'clock, in three Pulrnnn sleeping coaches the excursionists, to the number of one hundred and twenty-five, including some forty ladies, were snugly stored away, and "the subsequent events interested them no

until the Ohio river was crossed

at Parkersburg. This is on the Baltimore and Ohio road, a route we most cordially commend to those who journey towards tho national capital. It will be remembered that this road figured as the

dividing

line for much of the time dur­

ing the rebellion, and the war marks are yet visible along the line. To say nothing of the historic interest connected with the road, those of our readers who have never taken this route to the east will be surprised and delighted at the superb scenery along the line and at tho marvels of engineering skill displayed in the construction of the road itself, its bridges, its tunnels, snd its viaductsf* At Grafton, one hundred miles from Parkersburg the mountain soenery begins to assume those views of alternate loveliness and grandeur,which continue the balance of the route. In going east, by all means take the night train from Cincinnati and thus obtain by daylight a vievfr of tho wonders of this route. There are thirty-two tun nels on this road. Tho engineers in its construction seemed to consider it small matter to dig through any hill or mountain that might come in the way. Eighteen miles east of Grafton is the great Kingwood tunnel, nearly a mile long, solidly arched with iron and stone. Nearly five years were occupied in the construction of this great work and its coat amounted to a million of dollars. Just after passing this tunnel the grand scenery of the Cheat river region begins, and it is at this point of tho road that some of the greatest frets of railway engineering have been achieved. Those who desire to understand the power of science in conquering nature by means of Iron and steam will do well to obscrve carefully the features of the road between the great tunnel and Peidmont and see how it has been made to peas over, under and around the rugged

Allegheny mountains. 1Vthe unscientific eye it would appear impossible that a railroad could he bnilteeastoeroas the mountains fti thfal region.

Harpers Ferry waa reached by our party In the midst of a driving rain which prevented a good view of the wildcat scenery on the American esntSnent. The fUry if the storm, however, added to the gxmwleor of the scene and inspired a feeling approaching to awe. The boldness and grandeur of the mountain seeneiy at Harper% fbnry has derived ten-fold attractions from its having been the scene of so wany highly Important military opentoooa. It was here that John Brown fought really the flcst battle of the rebellion, and his «fint" stands within a few fes&ofthe railroad, just asbe left it

But these ief**e cannot be dwelt on, j-

for the train goeathandoring on towards the National Capital, which was reached at eight o'clock Friday evening. Here the party was met at the depot by General Hunter and other Indfantane, snd without any tiresome or useless formality eaeorted to Willard's Hotel, where we were quartered. During the evening many Indianians, resident at the Capital, called, and the next morning a formal call waa made on President Grant, at the White House. J. T. Byer read quite a lengthy presentation address, and then the peat President of this great nation mumbled over a few disconnected sentences, inaudible ten feet from him, to the effect that he wished he could reply in fitting terms, but he couldn't—that be was not hlmsell when on his legs—and altogether he presented a most pitiable and humiliating specta^de for one in hia exalted position.

Nellie Grant was not visible. She probably baslly engaged arranging her wedding fixings.

After passing through the several public rooms of the White House, a viait was made to the Oonoororian^s Art Gallery. Coming out of this building, the eye fells upon a gloomy pile of bricks and mortar across the street. This to the War Department. What solemn memories cluster around it. Here were planned great battles, upon the issue of which depended the fete of a great country. From these dark portals have gone forth many a message of life and death many a time and oft have the silent wires within these walls thrilled the world with their tidings of weal or woe to the cause of freedom. Here the indomitable, hard-working, never-tiring Staunton sat through the long night of our troubles, his ear turned to catch the slightest whisper from the field, his finger upon the magnet, ready in an instant to flash to distant points the needful order or the cheering news—waiting patiently, hopefully for the blessed dawn. Hero too was seen the lamented Lincoln, wan and pale from watchfulness and anxiety, in consultation with tho Secretary, ever and anon sending a trembling people words of encouragement and hope. He passed from us In the very hour when tot countrymen were making his heart glad with their grateful recognition of his worth—in the very hour when tho aspirations of thc great man's soul had been realized, and the demon of discord had been crushed to earth.

As these thoughts were passing our party divided into smaller squads to view thc wonders of the !N ation's capital. The trite saying that Washington is "a city of magnificent distances," is losing its significance. When it consisted of the Capitol, the White House, the war office, the patent office and the Treasury building, tho distance from point to point, must have been "magnificent but since the spaces have been compactly filled with bricks and mortar and the smooth Nicholson pavement, the original idea is lost and Wash ington appears to a stranger much like any other large, busy city.

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The glory of Washington is in ita public buildings. They surpass anything to which the American eye has been accustomed. I might fill this letter and several others with descriptions of these buildings, (I oould do it with great ease —from a guidebook at hand/) But I will not. In feet this letter is sufficiently lengthy, and unsatisfactory as it is I must bring it to a dose. Time is too precious for sight seeing, to got down to careful writing.

On Saturday evening the party was tendered a reception at Masonic Temple by the Indiana State Association, Governor Morton made the welcome address and J. T. Bryor responded. Other brief speeches were made by President Grant, Speaker Blaine, General Hunter and others, Then dancing was the order till near midnight. A pleasant incident of tho evening was tho presentation of a £40 cane to C. W. Ainsworth, of the Plalnfleld Record, who lias so admirably managed this excursion as to endear him in the hearts of all.

Yesterday, Sunday, visits vtelPO tnade to tho Soldiers' Home, tho Leo Mansion and Soldiers' Cemeteiy, on Arlington Heights. This evening Mt, Vernon Will be visited. J#

From here the piaitffpai to Richmond, then to Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. Since we started out an invitation haa been extended for a boat ride to Boston, which will be accepted, and probably Niagara Falls will be taken in on the return trip. You may hear again from. P. 8. W.

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Q1RU8H GRUMBLING. ,a The Springfield Republican audaciously says: "'Now that we have this interesting animal known aa American jrtrl under the microscope, we must take occasion to utter a caution against a morbid attention to her ease, and particularly against arousing in her a morbid attention to herself, hearly all the moral and physical doctors of ^h« day havo sufficiently denounced the recklessness of girls and their wilfulness on Koina fn thin shoes and snttg oorsetaJpnt fbeir habits are whit more offensive than the affected invalidism of some girls of no more than 1» years. This biibit is more nauseating in social intercourse than all the crimes against phy^Toiwy and hygiene, and is becoming nwreand more prevalent. Manv girfe take it from the peroetaal whtoli* of invalid mother*, who confide to their femtly an eltogetb*runneccs«ary amount of their own ailments and infect them with their own morbid tone of thoaght. How enlivening to meet one of these Miss Nancys: 'How are you Dolly?* 'Oh, quita niisorebie. I woke up with a terrific headache, and went with my bead In camphor all the morning.' *Ooingtothe concert, to-night 'Not ma thinks tt iant prudent, After the last oonsert 1 waa sick all the next day I am so delicate.' And if we would stop to hear she would tell ns at) about her nervea, her liver, her digestive miseries, and so on like the m«et accomplished old Betty."

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A FUNERAL WITH SOME STYLE ABOUT IT. fProm the Chicago Times, Saturday]

Chicaoo witnessed its first ChinamanVi fhneral on Thursday. It w:« a queer In feet it might almost be called an agricultural aflkir, from the important part potatoes ware made to play in it. rhe name of the defunct celestial Ah Leek. He

waa thirty-two years old.

It was at No. ilOWeet Randolph street he shuffled. The foneral took place on Thursday afternoon. About forty Chinamen were in attendanco, and a good many Melikane were present as look-

The body waa first attired in three or four suits of clothes. Much care was observed in all the ceremonies. Everything was done with punctilious exactness. Especial repugnance was exhibited to touching the corpse. If it was desired to change its position, the undertaker and his assistants had to do iU This seemed to arise more from superstitious scruples than fear. A great many potatoes with wax tapers stack in them, were placed all around the coffin. A particularly large one, with many tapers In it, was carefttlly put on the right hand ride. Several neles wore then burnt in the outside blouse the corpse had on, and with great ceremony. The undertaker was then requested to place apiece of silver in the dead man's month, after which a hat full of silver pieces was passed around the room, each person present being told to take one and keep it. A large number of square pieces or paper with holes punched In them, and bearing hieroglyphics, were then scattered in the coffin, alter which the undertaker placed tho corpse in, which was sprinkled over with these papers, and then covered with a white cloth and a rod one. More papers were scattered over these, after which tho lid was put on and screwed hwn. The undertaker and his assistants" hen lifted the coffin from its trestles and changed its position from foot to head three thues, the audience looking on with great solemnity. Then the bedding last used by the deceased waa rolled up and tied, and five potatoea ranged along tho top of it, the ndddle one being stuck full of tapers. After several holes had been burnt in this bedding, an expressman took charge of it and preceded tho procession to the grave. Ah Leek was then ready to be buried. He was thcu placed in a hearse, a carriage being driven lust ahead of It, lrom which the leader of the ceremonies continued to toss a largo quantity of papers bearing hieroglyphics, as the procession passed up the street, at

Wonders Cemetery, near Uraceland, the bedding was buried, and tho departed Chinee snugly laid at rest. As soon as enough of his countrymen have been accumulated alongside of him to mako it an object, the bones of the entire party will be packed up and shipped to tne Flowery Kingdom, there to quietly repose until Hang Yu and Yu Hung blow their brazen trumpets and sound tho crack of doom.

HOW A GIRL HELPS TO CLEAN HOUSE. She is perfectly willing to help, sho tells her mother she would just as leave stav home a week ss not. and informs her teacher, with a semi-triumphant air that she has to stay home next week and help clean house.

The carpets are taken up first, and that girl, delicately reared tboagn she be, bravely sits down in the middle of the floor, and reads a paper while her mother and hired girl take out tho tacks and make frantic efforts to use the samo form of prayer that the head of the house uses when his boots don't como on easy in the morning,

The carpet is rolled up and taken into the back yard and hung on the clothesline to be dusted. Now that girl comes out strong, and shows the latent energy that is in ber. She seizes an old broom and starts toward that swinging caroet with an air of determination. On ner way she spies her friend Kate passing, ana goos off to tho side fence to talk about an hour and a half—well, about whatever girts do talk about under the same circumstances then sho goes into the house and eats her dinner, and complains of being tired.

In the afternoon she begins dusting and arranging the books in tho bookcase. She finds, pretty soon, ono of Onida's novels, and sits down on tho floor to road, while tho Ink, from a bottle she knocks over when she throws her duster on the table, runs all over tho parlor curtain stuffed under tho chair nearby.

Her mother sees her and sends

her into the parlor to gather up her music ready for to-morrow's campaign. Sho gets along well enough with linger exercises and marches, but presently sho comes across "Dont be angry with me, darling," that Robert gave her last week, and begins to hum it. She opens tho piano to find the key note, to be certain she can take tho high note nicely, and begins to sing. It don't sound well without the accompaniment that Robert thought so sweet, so she sits down and begins to play. While she is practicing Robert comes along. He hears her. llo stops. Ho enters. Sho stops. He wants to near that sweet song. Came In only for that. She is too hoarse. She could not think of singing with her hair tied up In a towel—but she does.

Robert sighs as the song ends, and she proposes a game of croquet. They go out and play croquet until tea time.

NEARNESS OF DEATHk When we walk near powerful machinery, we know that one misstep and those mlffhty engines will tear us to ribbons with their living wheels, or grind us to powder in their ponderous jaws. So. when we are thundering across the land in a railroad carriage, and there is nothing but an inch of Iron flange to hold us on the line. So, when we arc In a ship, and there is nothing but the thickness of a plank between us and eternity. Wo Imagine, then, that we see how close we are to the edge of the precipice. But we do not see it. Whether on the sea or on the land, the partition that divides us from eternity la something less than the oak plank or a half-inch Iron flange. The machinery of life and death is within us. The tissnes that hold the beating powers In their places are often not thicker than a sheet of paper, and if that thin partition rupture it would bo the same as if a cannon-ball had struck ua. Death la inseparably bound up with life In the verv structure of our bodies. Strugxle as Be would to widen the space, no man can, at any time, go death than the thickness ef a sheet of paper fii t&,-t i._

WOXAK is asserting herself in all departments of literature, and In none more so than In po^ry. rom the earliest published English female poets

down

to a period twenty-five years ago, probably a less quantity was never launched upon the world than has been sent forth for favor in this country alono cinoe that period. We speak of quantity, not quality. Most so called poetry is abominable trash, yet not all. There la a select but growing guild of woman poets in America who are writing thing* destined to live forever, and the fbture will not regret, as we do not, that Pegasus has been broken to aside saddle.—(Kingston Freeman.