Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 4, Number 48, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 May 1874 — Page 4

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TKRRK HAUTE, MAV 1874.

TWO EDITIONS

Of thl* Paper are yabiMmd. Tb« FIRST KDITIOX, on Friday Ewxainc. has a large reulatkm la the urr-^wtwliiig towna, wh-.••• It Is sold** Wl:: r' •CCOtlk The SECOXD KPITr^«a **tr*"7 1b|, goem Into tb» tnd of ««7 wxtoj psswm la theeHy, and the lw» sraofthUimraed' rvh 'ty. £v«ty Wedrtlssu-. Ja,ln e*.

TWO NEWSFAPKRH,

In which all AdrtSttelMflti ip"|SNNr 'ft# ONE CHARGE.

THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION AND DA XTER MILL At the County Convention of the

ten could be secured against this Bill which is supposed to be so wrjr ob»os ions. It is a still more significant &et that this same convention which was so nearly equally divided in reference to this question, proceeded, on the very Ant ballot, and by almost a unanimous vote—eighty to five—to nominate a candidate for the Legislature who had openly and frankly declared himself opposed to the resolution just passed, and unwilling t6' be bound by it. It is a feet even more significant, that a democratic convention in another county of this state, held about the aadne time, *e* darefl #self in f*vor%f tto Blatter All The temperance sentiment evidently has grown sufficiently strong to secure some respect even from politician#.

In this county the matter steqds in about this shape. Both candidates for the legislature are good men. It was difficult, if not lmpo«5ibi the convention to select better men. And it* ordinary times their nomination wqold have almost rendered their et&ction Certain. But the subject of tefaipclranee is a disturbing oSentenf Thlrg is very strong dissalferfMttiOBLOft tfecMut fcfthe minority in reference to the action on the Baxter Bill. B. F. Havens, who is an out-and-out opponent of the bill and declared himself so, only received 4% more votes than were cast against the Bill. This shows that the friends of the temperance law stood firm, and it is very doubtful whether the temperance people of the Democratic party will vote for him at tho polls. Mr. Havens is a good man, excepting his views on the temperance question, and in these he is doubtless perfectly honest. He also is a temperance man In practice. But the rank and file of the party who, in the county, are in favor of the present liquor

law,

will not unite upon him. He will be badly scratched, especially if a man all right on this question, and as good in othei respects, is pat up in

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Democratic party held in this city last or orphan in need, lei not tihe day paw Saturday, Baxter Bill put In an appear- without some token of recognition of try**, and, after creating considerable the services rendered the county by the disturbance, was, with great difficulty,

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put down. It la a significant fret in and support. This should be a day not reference to the jnaeewwd strength of only for kind thoughts, but for loving the temperance sentiment, thai,in a wordsand,\t Democratic Convention consisting of iT seems that it is stipulated in the eighty-fiye delegate#, a majority ofomly

rfuirter ot our rtreet

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tion. Of course the Republicans declare that Democrats always vote the regular ticket. But the hot municipal election tells a different story. Whether he will secure a sufficiently large whisky vote to otftet this hi one of the things nobody can tell till after election.

As lor Mr. (filbert, who te in all respects unexceptionable, barring of course the fact thai be is a Democrat, it is pretty evident, from the vote on his nomination, that the whisky men will risk him, unless an ouMmd-out aati-temperance-iroan is put on the opposite ticket. And at the same time, unless the Republican* put two straigW-out temperance men on this tickct^ Mr. Gilbert will draw a large vote from the temperance element in the Republican party. An honest and intelligent man

ed a though gentleman,UklMr.Gil-|« rf in^ianaffhire, ^become insame bert, with hte viewa in reiwwaioe to the for the name cause. Both of thewJ ladies Barter bill, and »miinated so beiutlly are said to be of grestpurity and lovelibvtheD^ocratiepaity.ls averyhard ne« of man to beat in the moe fe* the legirfa- killing a wife, making her inwne, for tore in day^ when p«ty spirit, the sake of gaining success in poMtk*. on the BefHahUcoB side, is so o* course tho pr^erty benefitted by weak. the sewer sbooid pigr the bllis. Any cnaiw body can see that now that it has once i. i^"'" been pointed out. There is no good

so much dissatisfaction among Den. frt*fi surely the Republicans must •se that their only aalvatkm is to plant thermal ves squarely In ffcvor of the law. To dptlMT Je cet^ai* dfM. Toignore Itia equally frtat And only my of hope tat mtso^ te In a tmunHf*Uw in fevor of titc Baxter law. They n^f be MW«d with title, and they will be Muted without It.

MR. CAwnmtepppoeed to mf permits to sell Urfn^r, rrrwlmj as licensing an evil, a- !. .. i-jiv his t\rial voteon Tuesday jht was tn exact cord with hi* avowed pri**eii.!-«, and vote afduit crTl tfe»tMn

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railway, that the

oompaay shall build one mile of track each year if the city council so order. It Is nb more than just that this should be required of the company until it better accommodates the city than at present. It is probably true that the company is noi at present getting a very large return upon the capital Invested. But it muM not be forgotten that the company has a monopoly which is of very great prospective value. There is no reason why it should simply run from the river to the depot till such a time as additional lines may, be made to pay a good per wal. upon the additional Investment. These parties should pay for what they have by running lines of the road to those parts of the city where they will best accommodate the citizens and onhsncc the value of the property. This is the way in wliich they were expected to pay for what is destined to bo a fat thing in the future. The city needs more street railway fscilHiois. ^Lct the company give it sccordfaig to agreement.

The attempt of a minority of the council to take advantage of the absence of a member to rush |hrough a modification of tho ordinance requiring a fee of 9200 for permits to sell liquor which was passed at the proceeding meeting, and their refusal to listen to all appeals to ooivrtesy, is, to put it mildly, not to the credit of the parties concerned ot the cause which they represent. Mr. Carter did himself great credit by refusing to be a party to an attempt to defeat by such a trick a measure to which be has been honestly opposed. He would have voted the ordinance down if he could, but would not defeat it by a trick*

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I)KGQiUrjQXDJt.V* HOW 18 TJIISf This is the day that brings heck torn One of the resolutions sdopied attic more vividly than any other of the year Democratic County Convention ««$*, ttat mWt ot the -*v fWasiwdf in "The Baxter BUI has wholly klled to ou| land will |e-d*y ««ain aceoropliah thedesdgns of 1U originators in memory thoae days «ad even and friends, and tl»t the use of Intoxiand ytmm, terrible suspense, eating liquare under the pi ussuie of that when they wondered what had been, fiinatioa! statute, Is now greater In this and would be the fcte of the seddierson, commonwealth than during any period Inother, husband or fether. The terrible sinoe the Maine law of 18M." The next deshodk caused by the announcement that dares thait he ^Democratic party Jhvore he was killed, car wounded, or missing, the repeal of that enactment, which has will fee felt again. And to others will seriously disturbed the business of the thememoryafthe gtpd day when country." If thte law has increased the the dear boy lu blU9 ««tne heme safe use of intoxicating liquors, fi certainly and sound. Many a soldier's mother, has not seriously disturbed the liquor sister, or wife will to-day bemore grate* business and oilier pursuits connected ftil to the kind Providence which spared with thte. Perhaps it was intended to her dear one, when she remembers how imply that it had so increased the use many were lost. This ought to be a day intoxicating liquors and druukennesn, to kindle patriotism, a day to make the that the people had became unfitted for heaurte ofaU glow wittift*ling» of respect business. It is pussllng to see how else and honor tor the dead and with kind- that which has so greatly Increased the Iter emotions toward those who weep for use of liquor could seriou»ly disturb bustheir sleeping benoath the iness. However ordinary minds are not

Thk Banner Is not satisfied witlithe resolutions of tho Democratic Convention on the Baxter Bill, so the Gazette says. Now that is bad. After the convention had tried bo hard to make just gregauonansis ine inustpupuiux x-n the "implicit pledge" demanded by the minister in

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Qerman editors, and offended the strong

temperance element in the party by so

doing, it is meet awfully trying to find,

when it is too late, that the resolutions which were to secure th6influence of the German paper, are & bungling failure. Why didn't the people who got up the resolutions before hand, have gumption enough to have them drawn up in the Banner offioef Here is a hint for the Republican managers.

POUTMAS*' wives seem to be giving for hazing, tho rest of their class-mates

a hard time of it, poor souls. Mrs. McOook died reoently at Washington, evidently in consequence of the attacks made upon her husband's character and her own, to prevent the confirmation of his nomination as territorial governor. Mrs. Smith, the wife of the Commission­

son why the enttrt city should pay for increasing the vaTue or property bought by individuals at a lew rate because of its disadvantages. Give the fifth ward a sewer, and every other ward the same when it wants one, and let each pay for it-, own." Nothing can bo fiUrCf/ m&emeammmmm

CnsntsrAm-m alter esses. For example, when the candidate is shaking han^ior. departinc it Is e»st(Mnary to say, "Certainly, I will do all 1 can to get you the nomination." After the door is sinatlMidnd him It is proper to remark, Tlti old Jboi isn't fit for the

Tns new Kplsoopsl diurch-the Rer..fmed f^teoopai they call iV-fortned 'tAer ItiAop ('limmlftjps has been boldi.»e Ha first eonvf-ntion. It develops

HJKS^itili^HwAdofewaisMwibsr: j»-• 4mei| t*«et fit*, ms r.-Mf* to take advantage of otcryUMirpoittt

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in the Freshmen and SopOmoro classes wanted to go too. The Faculty told them to go, or, In other words, suspended them also. Now the Seniors and uniors are on their dignity and are eager for martyrdom. By all means let them martyr for tho inalienable right of has-

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1st his first speech, Senator Washburne, the successor of Mr. Sumner, advocated tho reapportionment of tho bank circulation, which would take a largo amount of currency from hte own stole and the East generally, and give it to liie West. This is rather TRem-roits for a Senator from a moneyed state, and a bai^prcaident at that.

WAtKft iT taking Ha turn as the destructive element just now. The floods at the south, the breaking of a reservoir in Msssachttskte and itnother In one the Western states, all cam© in rapid succession. Is there such a thing as an epidemic in tl»e different kinds of catsstrophleaf msassmseisseBtssst'

Wwros has begun walking once more, Mid as usual biting to accomplish what he attempt*. Though be did walk lift miles in a idn^e day, but he Ailed to make the 500 miles In five days. Let him wirtk, btit don't waste telegraphic dispatches on Mm.

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-^TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

to be expected to understand and see the harmony of all the declarations of party platforms. But the candidates will be around by and by and explain it all.

IT was very unfortunate for Mr. Mil ler that he was sick last Tuesday evening. We fully believe that he has too much respect for himself and too much good sense to "go back" upon the par ties who brought him out as a candidate and elected him. Such a course would cost him the roepoct and conifdenoe of those who have heretofore trusted and honored him, and would make him contemptible in the eyes of those who use him. Tills he has sense enough to see, and we must believe that ho as deeply regrets as any other, the false position In which the enomies of the temperance ordinance In the council insisted upon putting him last Tuesday evening.

A spkkcji like that of Mr. Henderson, In the dty coundl, last Tuesday evening, is really refreshing. It is a comfort to have a man there who can express his views elearly, dispassionately, and mod estly. His speech, considering the pur pose for which it was uttered, is a model. Evidently he had studied his subject and knew what he was talking about, and how to talk about it. Mr. Henderson promises to be a very useful member of the council, and the second ward may well be proud of its representative. 7 there is any danger that this commendation will spoil the yottng man—we do not fear it—we will take it all backt

THB terrible disaster in Mossachu setts caused by the breaking away of a reservoir, has turned the public attention to reservoirs in general. And now tho fact comes out that our reservoirs are mere babies compared with those of the ancients at the East. We think an embankment of 600 feet is quite a dam. But in lndia they have tl.om from 20 to 30 miles in length. In Ceylon there is one 15 miles long, with a wall of solid and matched masonary the entire length. And they are built not to give away.

SWING, has swung off from Presbyterianismto Congregationalism. It is an ill wind that blows nobody good, and even a bigotted Patton sends tho Congregationalists the most popular Presbyin a true catholic spirit, Mr. Swing does not

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minister over a Presbyterian churdi, and will do so, unless Patton and his few followers worry the church into a departure also.

STILL tho war between the students and Faculty at Ann Arbor goes on. When a few students were suspended

be|run burnlng Wltk«» Ih

Mexico. In the langtuige ot Ariemus Want, "True, too true! Soanderlous

tr a company want* to build a .fttia on ressonaMe oondltiotw, by all atenwktil be done.

CAxnT-narw are the moat common sweat meeto ln those days. Good supply nri hsi»d.

Vat your own Wils*' hss been sdded I iMri vUiiMWd sftfcl new '•'0^

Two hundred dotlan Is a suflldently small fee for permits to eeU liquor. 1

POSING FOR THE NtTDE. I Albert Shades,, fa Oalaxjr.} Ahout twenty students were collected at the atelier, awaiting the arrival of the person who waa to pose. A glowing stove made the place excessively warm with a view to the ootnfort of the expected model. As it waa costoaaary to admit only painters, advised me not to Intimate that 1 did not belong to the priesthood of ait^ as peinton, especially models, disliked tee presence of Philistines—laymen being thus designated in the language of the atelien

Presently the model arrived—a bright handsome brunette of nineteen or twenty. There was a demonstration of welcome from tho painters, the door was locked, and she proceeded in a like fashion to prepare for work. When ready she mounted a platform about two feet high, where she fell under a lofty broad side-light. Two of tho more advanced painters, who acted as a committee or arrangement*, placed her in a position. Tbteoelng the first pose, there was discussion about the posture to be assumed. Several times the two placed her and then retired a few yards to observe the effect, remarking as they did so, "Don't hold the arm so stiff," "Incline the head a trifle," and what not, accompanied with painters' pantomine, snch as slowly sawing the head, shutting out portions with the Intercepted hand, ana massing the effects with halfdosed eyes. The fourth trial proved to be a suqoesat, at which a phrsse of general satUfectlon was expressed. Hie two, enjoviRg her not to budge, with the others, got behind their easels and went to work, some taking off their coats. One modelled in clay with this exception all held crayons. All tho feces turned earestly toward the canvss, the clay, and the model, and not a sign of dawdling or frivolity wss to Ijo seen. To them the woman was a statue. Nothing was recognised here but art tit took the form of worship, and he who looked with other eyes than those of an artist wns accounted sacrilegious. Ihus tho public opinion of the atelier made them all artiste, and if the art feeling was not possessed, it was assumed.

After a time the silence was broken by her requesting some one to heat up the stove as she wascold, which brought out one or two ejaculations, and a murmur tlmt we wore already in the interior of Africa, to which she retorted that they would not think so If they were in her place. Another long silence was interrupted by her asking the time, at which one of the elders remarked, "Not yet, mademoiselle." Again in a few minutes she said she was sure the time must be up. "It is,, my child," answered the same elder "reposo yourself." She left the stand, drew a mantle about her, and took a seat by the stove with a sense ot relief. She was obliged to look out for herself In regard to the time of posing, as the painters were usually so absorbed as to forget it..

The repose of the model brought with it a contrast to the previous silence. There was a general buzz, and lighting of pipes and cigarettes. Two or three compliments wore addressed to tho model for her excellent posing native gallantry cropped out, and two or three told her she was an angel or a duchess, to which she replied in that spirit of raillery with which these things were uttered. This was an illustration of French character—fond of work and equally fond of. play.

I approached the model as she sat by the stove and entered into conversation with her, when I learned that she had another occupation, that of artificial flower-making, by which she earned three francs a day. Posturing was naturally more profitable she received five francs for the two hours and a half to three hours she remained in the atelier, during which she posed about two hours, the remainder being taken up in rests. The times of repose she called her entr' actc*. Believing me to bo a painter she called ray attention, in asimpie, natural way, .to tho rounqijees Of her arm, the texture and color of tho skin, and the curved lines of her shonlder. She went on to say in a manner purely professional:

My arms and shoulders are my best points, and I occasionally pose for them 1 liko it much bettor than posing for the whole figure."

At length the painter in authority told her it was time to resume tho pose, and before stepping on the platform she looked at his watch. She was posing for Cynthia, who cast the shepherd Endyuiion into a deep sleep in order to kiss him. One of tho pointers having acquainted her with tho mythological story of tho artful stealing of the osculation, she observed that sho paid very little attention to such nonsense—besides, one could not believe more than halt these painters said about such things. Then she fell cleverly into the posture, guided by a few directions. As they proposed to work on tho fitco, she was instructed to wear a pleased expression. Cynthia was taken at the moment she is advandng toward tho sleeping JEndymion to snatch the kiss, coy and yet Impelled by sweet temptation.

Try, my child," said tho man in authority, "to imagine that tho young man vou love lying asleep before you—with hte pockets full of bank notes."

This had the desired effect: the model could not help laughing, and the traces of it remained some time on her face. All fell to work again and silence was supreme, as each tried to transfer Cynthia's happy fece to canvass. Once in a while, when through lassitude or forgetftilncw* she modified the posture, papa— the older painter—said to her sharply, "Mademoiselle, pey attention," wjiidi showed that, however much license was allowed during the rests, rigid discipline was oiueted lu time of work.

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to be a painter, die must get over her squlnzttehneesf if she warns to paint strong and well like a man, she must go through ths same training. The trial to a modest young woman is at first great but ss soon ss she is possessed of the an, feeling, the test impreasfcm whicii she receives on entering the atelier weara *w*y, aud she la absorbed in her work like those around her. There is no sex here: tho students, men and women, are simply painters. In the atelier, exoeaaive modestyin a woman painter Is rign of modioerity only the woman who forgets the conventionalities of sodety in the pursuit of sit stands chance for distinction. If the woman has not a desire, an enthusiasm to profit by the advantage of the atelier, she had better nover touch paint or pencil. This is one of the best ateliers in Paris to learn to paint in, and this Is a sufficient reason for our doming here. Society can no more be governed by the rules of sjrt, than the atelier can be governed by the rules of society. If Roea Bonhenr had occupied her time looking after the proprieties she would not wand where she does to-day."

There was something almost defiant in the remfcrks of the young woman, as if she held a position that required defending. What she said, too, left an inference that she had broken many lances in malntaing herself on what Is regarded as debatable ground. Ha#«

HOUSE-CLEANING. New York Orapbic.]

It is an epidemic which attacks all well-regulated households twice a year. The spring visitation is usually the worse of the two. It unsettles everything. It goes to the very marrow of the situation, and makes every member of the family home-sick dean down to the stockings. Like measles and chicken-pox and courting and similar derangements, there te no euro for it but to go through it, and blessed is the man who does not lose his temper on the way. For while It lasts the beeftteaks will be tough as sole leather, and the coffee the poorest substitute for slops. Dinner will be late and inedible when ready. The cook will be cross, the children will tease each other and torment the maid, the old servant will quit and leave her mistress In the lurch, the dog will upset the basket with the best china and ruin the set, the cat will deposit a litter of kittens on the satin sofa, a half dozen cousins will drop down from the countrv to spend a week, and a few friends will come in to take a quiet tea and have a ddightful sit-down, and the mistress of the house will be sure to have one of her sick headaches or break down from overdoing. It always happens, too, that when the east wind blows a perfect hurricane through the house, and every room in it is a regular Growlery, Mr. Smith is sure to invite Mr. Jones to come to lunch, or take it into his head to liavo the rheumatism or some other company. Then the upturn discovers so many uncomfortable facts! The parlor curtains are laded, and must be replaced writh new ones. Three chairs are rickety, and the rosewood sofa can't possibly be mended, and the stair carpet is threadbare, two bedsteads are broken, the gas-pipes are out of order, the water leaks through the ceiling, and the last domestic earned off a whole chestful of her mistress's clothes. Everything •was serene and lovely on Sunday night, but on Tuesday morning there is bedlam, and five hundred dollars to pay into the bargain.

But the epidemic is inevitable. Sanitary laws don't reach it. And perhaps, after all, it is not so bad as the thing it removes. The civilized senses look on dirt as the devil, and hall the contrivances of modern life are devised for its removal. It has a remarkable abilUy to stick. It is subtle as sin and finds its way into the smallest crevices of our habitations. It uses all our modern conveniences for its own ends, takes spedal delight in the furnace, makes its bed in the velvet carpet and damask chairs, and claims every costliest and choicest-thing as its special property. Whoever lias these elegant furnishings must pay the price. We cannot engraft the simplicity of the old time on the complex order of the new. Whoever has carpets must shake them, and curtains will fade and gilt will waar off and china will break. There may be too much fussing and fretting about the matter, but the matter itself is wholesome. Now and then a housewife has cleanliness on the brain, and wears out her gloves with scouring, and scrubs all the paint off lier doors, and keeps the furniture of her parlor standing in such mathematical oroer that each artide looks like a sentinel almost seems to ache from standing in one posture so long. But these women are so exceptional that they are studied as curiosities and their houses are inspected as a sort of cross between a museum and a sepulchre. Yse has got the better of looks. Tho average American home to-day is a place to live in and make the heart glad, and not a place to look at and clean every six months and be miserable in all the rest of tho year.

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tido could not at once be found. "What savages!" twenty men and not one mirror. Butt am not surprised at It you are Mich monsters you are afraid to look at yourselves," As Frenchmen liko to be mlled monsters by the women, this was taken as a general compli ment. At length a cracked mirror—poetically styled stereeaf—was produced, before which idie smoothed out her plumage like a bird In the sunshine. Her attire was simple a sombre-colored little hat, black alpaca robe dark brown mantle, dosely fitting gloves and boots and a parasol In hand comprised her costume. Knufrped, *he had the demeanor of aro«VwXf Nattterre, or a convent girt The flranc piece was handed to tier enveloped in nsBcr, a mark of delicacy. After mafimi in appointment for Mother day, she

oat with a tttodfrt. quiet air

am last a general chorus of adieus. The paintet* of this atelier were cornnosed of both st&es. working together £pparefttiy without dtfflcolty/six or seven women were present, two of whom were Americas#. On making the aoqualntaaoe of one of the latter abe observed:

Bom* of our countrymen find an lm* propriety In our working in a mixed atelier, and perhaps there Is, according to society's code but if a woman wants

TERRORS OF THE WEDDING '~y'

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Men who behave with the utmost bravery In danger are. nevertheless, horribly nervous when it befalls them to play a prominent part In any of the gala shows of life and at the last moment, they find themselves overwhelmed at the prospect of all the form and ceremony which they will have to go through aupldousday. Not one man in on the ..... a thousand wakes on hte wedding morning without feeding a weight on his mind similar in kind, though, ordinarily we may hope, less in degree, to that which he would experience were he going to bo hung. By almost every man the show part of the ceremony to, to say the the least, voted a most dreadful bore, while to the nervous and retiring tho process of l»lng trotted out, arrayed in an unusual dross for that hour of the dav, amid the scrutinising ease of hundreds of Critical eyes, while the victim catches here and there the little "quips and cranks" in which the facetious delight to indulge at such times, Is simply Agonizing. It 1* a feet that under such cTrvuinstanees men have actually been known tc fWnt—or bolt,

And who on earth should the victims go through all tillsT The true answer *, we believe, to gratify the vanity of the lady's Mends. Tbeee matrimonial "splurges" have become an opportunity of which nouveavx richrs are specially pleased to avail themselves to display heir money and[ ostentation. How oasllv even the unwilling become slaves to ftohion we all know ftall well, and thus persons who hate all thte fktiguiiig fins, and what te more cannot at all afford it, find themselves driven Into Incurring the cost from fear of not doing as others do. If people are anxious to entertain their friends on such an occasion, a hall in the evening or a reception, with good music, te a capital way of doing It but nine times out often ft would be for more to the purpoee if the cost of snch entertainments were transferred to the pocket of the young couple, woo seldom find, when they negin to set up house, that they are overburdened with riches.

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THB ABSURDITY OF DRINKING. ffVom All ths Year Bound.} It has become a sort of popular—almost national—frith that it la not possible to be truly happy unices you drink. Among certain classeo-and they are by no means exdusivdy the lowest—drink te the beginning and end of everything. The very name of liquor te held to be avnonymoua with etgoyment, and the dearer the liquor the more It is prised and coveted. Yet every man who is not a drunkard, Is well aware that the pleasures of drinking are, beyond a certain point, a mockery, a delusion and a snare. I put it to any one who has stood half the night at a bar or set half the night in a club room, drinking, smoking and1bandying reckless talk, if the ertfoyment of such an evening has been anything like that of a few quiet hours spent at home with a boos or newspaper? The evil Influence of tavern pleasures on the health te too obvious to be denied by any ono and the illusory nature of the pleasures themselves would be undeniable also, if the persons who indulge in them did not deceive tbemMlves and put the truth out of sight.

No ene ever brought anv good ofa drinking bout yet. Is a short, feverish spasm of animal enjoyment, which leaves nothing behind but moroseness, regret, bad temper, self-reproach ana headache. I should like to ask you, sir, if you say prayers when you coute home in that state? No—you don't. You are ashamed to say them. You postpone them until you have purged yourself, your mind and your lips by more sober and rational behavior. Next night when you pass the hours ouietlyat homo with a book or a friend, you feel that you have had real enjoyment, and that the time has passed pleasantly, that you have learned something, and that you have not injured your health* You are not sshamed to say your prayers, and you get up next morning with a clear lioad a good appetite, ana an increased faculty for work and enjoyment of life.

MARK TWAIN'S PLEA FOR THE WOMEN. Would you consider the conduct of these crusaders justifiable? I do—thoroughly justifiable. They find themselves voiceless in the making of laws and the election ot officers to execute them. Born with brains, born in the country, educated, having largo interests at stake, they find their tongues tied and tkeir hands fettered, while every ignorant, whisky-drinking, foreign-born savage in the land may hold office, help to nuke the laws, degrade tho dignity of the former and break the latter at hte own sweet will. They see their fathers, husbands and brothers sit insanely at home and allow the scum of tho country to assemble at the "primaries," namo tho candidates for office from their own vilo ranks, and unrebuked, elect them. They live in the midst of a country where there is no end to the laws and no beginning to the execution of them. And when the laws intended to protect their sons from destruction by intemperance lie torpid and without sign of life, year after year, they recognize that here is a matter that interests them personally, a matter which comes straight home to them. And since they are allowed to lift no legal voice against tho outrageous state of things they suffer under in this regard, I think it is no wonder that their patienoo has broken down at last, and they have tried to persuade themselves that they are justifiable in breaking the law of trespass when the laws that should make tho trespass needless are allowed by the voters to lie dead and inoperative—[London Standard.

^1AT UNHAPPY ACTRESS. Alines Desclee, the greatest actress in France, who died recently, wrote on ono occasion to Dumas as follows:

I shall finish by entering a convent. That is certain. It is my fixed idea. What can I do here Why this agitation, these combinations, this useless study, this vocation of mountsbank, this existence at once empty, monotonous and noisy! To embellish one's poor features, compress one's frame, chango tho color of one's hair, rub one's nails to make them shining, and then with a studied manner recite certain things, not a word of which seldom expresses ono's real thoughts to lie, In fhet, deceive the eyes and ears of the crowd, to amttse them for a few hours.

Frankly, where is the purpose of all this? Wnat's the use, ana what comes of it afterward But why am I not happy or at least content I havo no person—nothing to complain of. How many women in my placo would thank heaven. The house is filled every night there are flowers and presents enough to satisfy all the minotaurs of tho stage. But! it is all the same way to me. The recapitulation of all this, my friend, te, that I shall certainly finish by takings the veil. I never think of killing myself, but I should consent very willingly to die. In a convent I should become ecstatic. I should adoro my crucifix. Three only shall I be content with my lot. No one has any interest in retaining me in the vocation I am in, and my. absence would render a few persons happier. A place vacant—who 1s to succccd? ______

Bcm't complain of the selfishness of, the world. Deserve friends, and you will get them. Tho world is teeming with kind-hearted people, and you have only to carry a kind, sympathetic heart in your bosom to call out goodness and friendliness from others. It tea mistake to expect to receive welcome, hospitality, words of cheer' and help over rugged and difficult passes In life, in return for cold selfihnees,*wbich cares for nothing in the world but self. Cultivate consideration for the feelings of other people, if you woo Id never have your own Injured Those who complain most of ill-usage are the ones who abuse themselves and others the oftenest.

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