Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 5, Number 4, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 July 1874 — Page 1

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Town-Talk.

TBS WRATH**.

It's damned hot!" This was the remark al a {nokM man one Sunday morning just as Henry Ward Beeeher— (tills name sounds fkmiliar yoo m»y bare sjen It la the papers lately)—was entering the pulpit. Wiping the perspiration from lila brow, the Reverend gentleman startled his congregation by repealing the expression, and taking It fcr a text, preached a sermon on profanity. This Is the way the story goe*. Beeeher baa denied that he did so, but then

As T. T. his pencil In hand to fill his allotted column and glances at an Insurance company thermometer, with mercury away up among the nineties, he is forced 'to exclaim "It's hot!" lie piously leaves oat the objectionable adjective that couples the words. And tor want of any other subject T. T. will indulge In some

TORRID KEFXJ9CTIOS*.

And what more appropriate subject could be chosen theme sweltering July days, than the weather, it may be thirty urged that T. Ts opinions on this subject are of no greater Importance than those of other folks but on the other hand It affords a sweltering sufferer a severe Mtisfiwtion to be told that be is hot. The statement of Mr. Smith or Mr. Jones, whom yon casually moot in the street, that it is really the wannest day In the year, is not without interest but to read in the ftvorite column of your favorite paper, in the sonorous, rounded phrases of journalism, that the weather is almost without a parallel in the remembrance of the oldest inhabitant, imparta a. dignity and force to the Intelligence of which it is not otherwise capable

Dignity! In connection with the preseat heated term, the very word seems out of place. What dignity can exist in a mortal man who wears no no slxlrt collar, who has on his shoulders a siimpey linen coat, and who Is anmed with a 1% palm-leaf Qui! What dignity la these in the Incessant reiteration of ejacnlatory remarks about the heat and the utter impossibility to keep cool! Dignity In a July such as this is impossible.

Once in a while, however, one will meet an exasperatlagly cheerfbl creature, who will maintain in a very provoking manner, that it is excellent weather for the crops—a growing time tor corn. At snch observations the ignorant city man wonders why he should be sacrificed Ibr wheat—why humanity should almost perish that corn may thrive! And yet

KKET COOt.

Is T. T*s. advice for these hot hours. Easier said than done," is the irritated rejoinder and comment. Not so, if you will learn how, and go the right way to work! How then about the "how"T Well, thus, partially: Don1* think about the heat don't keep consulting the meniiy dout sigh and worry and fret, and get rest! don't bother con oeraing dress, exi^^A to have it loose and light attend quietly to whatever you have to do, and do It quietly and persistently choosing, when choice allows, light employment in the shade then •tick to your task, regardless of all other •ticking, persistently. Straightway you'll become engrossed with that, and as ytm freely perspire, perform it, gettfiu wore and more ^lvlonaofftbeteM^ iure, however fi^uace-like and gin tin as. The mo«t comfortable people In the world, during the reign of the dog star, are those that 1 n-iist b't.g indeprnifrttt the nr, :u rviuteto atlmv to tl. attention from tuHrhabitualpursuitsawl ordit 1:1 rj metll la wn If rt v»!• living Hvil^' right on, 1 :.-gni:v- the to "Old Ptw-,'1 w^ji-i-Ul 'ytt to nltendtott* v«geh*v

There S**e •wwgprnsat»ng 1 miinstance oonne«lwitb tMsheaUl torn which T. i. dnly thankfi t:.rt i« that it i-Mm him to *, ilj

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twc:iv#V»nd.'IT'pri-Sty one I* r.-n«l.cml horru#|»,«

a landscape, rendolent of sweets, breathing sell odon and soothing the eye 'with its ftwh loveliness. It is when dreaaed their summer array, swee? anil pure oklng amid the heat and glare of the crowded pavement that the parity and gentle fhorlnntfr"* of the sex crone prom* Inently in view. Then they ~xl broaws that have "come over riots and kissed the flowers in their path," or patches of green grass shaded by leafy trees, 0* rivulet* that Ubble between banks of long waving grass, or any thing that is fresh and pure and gently alluring. 80 robed, beauty does not seem so regal, so for above us it ia nearer our

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plain.

|n*:r»4y i-^ht Mi-ru-duress. flor% lifet* -nd Vtv.-.n nr\er AttMs sss- tteywr a wy pet-*-v, •, jjgj* in!:!u? 1«t ..ur MMf .le «.. TTtrr,. «d»rti«u trap-j .... pings Uut: Ux^ ightw IM Into ado- MAHMAAK LicEsam.—Tb« IbUewing

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approach it, reverently, but still caressingly for it means innocence, purity and simplicity. ?'f

Still, as with everything connected with the sex, there Is a mystery about these gauze-enoompamed figure* that flit pmt in the hot sunshine. How can they task so cool and fresh It may be that they perspire the same as a man, but they don't show it.

hy don't they

sometimes wilt, or become limp and pfaqm as T. T. does when he tries to deck himself in summer array? There la the mystery. woman, thoa aeerat |wwi knowing,

Uke roses that grow by the wall You catch every odor that's ijtolng, Tet gather but swwtnwfrom ail.

THE BAPTISTS.

TKRRJ?HAITK, Illy 20,1874.

MR. P. WKSTWAUL, Dear Sir .—I feel sure your columns are open to word of explanation. I am sorry to feel obliged to reply to anything in your T. T. column and now have nothing to say about the innocent petBonal jokes. But so respectable and honorable a personage as T. T. has referred to the conscientious views of a society of people in such a way that they feel grieved by Ids loose assertions.

T. T. says of the Baptists*^ 1. "They believe that the only gates toh&ven are flood gates." This, with the remainder of the paragraph, means that the Baptists teach that baptism is essential to salvation. 2. He uses language which means that in our way of keeping house we make a claim to superior holiness.

He says our denomination each year is becoming smaller. On each of these points, I speak from accurate knowledge, when I aver that there ia not a shadow of proof for snch ffjutamonta- T. T. cannot find a single noteworthy writer of the denomination in its plain history aince the Reformation, who hints such a doctrine as baptiamal regeneration

As to our method of observing the Lord's supper we claim to act only for ourselves without desiring to bind consciences, and without any pretensions to infallibility, to superior sanctity, or to monopoly of divine favor and divine truth. C. R. HKXDEBBOX,

Pastor First Baptist Church.

Ho*. W. W. CrRRY in a speech at Greeneaatle, on Saturday, discussed at length the reasons assigned by the Democratic platform tar the repeal ofthe Baxter law, and showed that the Governor signed it and pronounced it constitutional, and now when it suits his party he goes squarely back on it. The Republican platform was made to suit the demands ofthe temperance and religious portion of the people tho Democratic platform was made to suit the liquor dealers and drinkers. The practical lasaos are religion against infidelity, temperance against drunkenness, awl lawrul restraints against licentious indulgences. The Republican platform proi to decide the qneetion of selling ior on tho American basis of popular vereignity the Democratic platform proposes to decide the question on the principle of individual will, every mmn to sell wii- and where ho pleases, whether the people want him to or not, if he has the money to pay for a license. And they propose to Bribe the pnhlto conscience by putting tbo moneyinthe school fund. Mr. Curry concluded by naying that Ws friends toid htm to say w"lUtle as powdble on this temperance oneatloi). lie replied by saying that he would say all he could on the question that he would not have accepted the nomination if the platform was not aa explicit aa it fat and as the party had given him »H ho asked on the tomjmn 'v he would stand by

risotto is Esaum. .t jj {N. Y. S\ *U,}

*Wil as Mr. TSitoi -A, need no ftn^ th«r «vkler' •»than his 11. He stands tteii.re n- new I'V his "\tn aei, naked alMBieiM. r.r''- UUAM«.4. "r rather he does lor that lath, charw icristicattan.-.- 1 K*l btitsguata i» Ivciin^, .'liarmie utape. 1 .'Sdobberfn l-

Husks and Nubbins.

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THK nana noraww.

Theahott and brilliant aeaao« of commencement has paased away with its pieaaant outpouring of flowers and applause. From the rostrum where he ahone In oratorical qdendwr for an evening the graduate has retired to the solitude ef the old homeatead, where, as the honor and pet of the household and the ornament of' the social circle of the neighborhood, he can claitn the privilege of loafing laxily under spreading trees, reading from fkvorito authors and pondering the problem of his future eoiirue.

Bplte ofthe proverbial arrogance and egotism of the college graduate, his graceful assumption of superiority in all knowledge, and complacent self-suffi-ciency for all undertakingH,which invite many a abaft of ridicule trom the man of practical pursuits, there Is something In his final breaking loose from the moerings of his alma mater that borders on the pathetie, and excites a feeling of sympathy coupled with a willingness to proftor a word of advice. And then, more than at any previous period, la the young man of liberal education and high aspirations, In need of enoonragoment and direction. During the halcyon years when, congregated with congcnlal spirits, he pursued the pleasant and peaccfbl paths of learning, ho lived in a world hardly ruffled by any wind of adversity, yet not lacking either in a sort of gentlo excitement sufficient to ward off the monotony of stagnation. With all the old associations broken up and tho sundering of friendships nevor perhaps to be renewed, what wonder If the new-fledged alumnus fools himself suddenly cast into a strange and untried world? He is at last where, for all the years of his student life, ho longod to be —on the threshold of his real career But he will confess to himself, if to no one else, that there has been a sudden and unaccountable diminution in his ambition, confidence and zeal. To the young graduate (which means the multitude of that class Avho have just swarmed from the colleges throughout the country) thus revolving the problem of practical life, we will venture a few words of suggestion, with the hope and belief that they will be received in the spirit in" which they are dictated!* --iv 1. You should select some profession which your learning and ability will adorn. This need not cost you much time or labor, as the field is exceedingly narrow. Of course you will not think of

Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce or Merchandise, as proper avenues through which to exercise your large and cultured powers. Even the spelling of these industries with capital initials does not relieve them of an inherent coarseness which is inconsistent with the refinement and polish which you have devoted years of arduous toil to obtain. There are then but four callings left which you may enter without compromising your self-respect* and the high hopes with which your college victories have Inspired the parental heart, vis: Journalism, Divinity, Law and Medicine. These are arranged in the order of their relative Importance 2. After considering these four professions in detail do not fall to choose the first one, for manifold reasons. There is not much honor in being doctor In these times. Almost any man of aver age sense can learn to administer pills and quinine, judiciously varied, with a few other drugs, with comparative secu rity from an indictment for murder. Law is open to the objection of being a declining profession, which has seen its palmiest days and will never be what It once was. No young man of your abilities and ambition should be satisfied to enter a declining profession. Divinity is toeing its grip. It is generally admitted that no hotter place than the dog days, through which we are now passing, may reasonably 10 anticipated hereafter, hence the necessity for Wosleys and Whitfield* no longer exists. To Jour nalfsm bone of these objections apply It Is a growing profession, having virtually bat just entered on Its career of dominion and power. It Is a necessary profession, for people could no more get along without their AaUy papers than without their breakfluts,and indped not so well, at many a one lets his chop and ooflw- gi eold while absoi dIn perusal of

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morning news. It is an honorable profession. To prove tills it Is only

letter* of the worn had srworo to railroads, the tickets to shows smith? »"v.\ Itonor, and cheriwh, and "P^lbjK I iBtmmera? and valuable presents Ikl^ml'tJ^ll&lSrof wo whi. pour into the editoriM sanctum

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& Having made np your mind to this choice, the next thing is to look round for a vacancy in the managing editorship of some one of the leading dailies. Buch vacancies dont often occur and seldom remain long open when they do, hence yon may And some little difficulty in meeting with one as soon ss you could desire, especially if some of your old college creditors are pressing yoa a little closely, sail,

ftom all aides. It Is alse a profitable profession, tits* Is If. «»ltiv«ted successftitiyi There area half-down or so tt the country.-v^ho '.salKriM of JwUMKW per annUtXi and while it is true that this ffcetis oM by another, to-wit tML some five or #x thonsand other editors eke out a scant}' living bn front W.000 to 18,000 a year yet this does not count for much, as you of course would not enter any proftwwion iwle« with the full determination to plsnt yourself on the topmost round ofthe ladder. Every thing considered, journalism Is by all odds the best profession for you to enter.

if it once becomes gener

ally known that you are sacking a place, publishers will hasten to make one for you. 4. If, however, there should seem to be snch a surfeit of journalistic talent on the market at the moment you offer your services, ss to exclude yon, for the time being, from ss prominent a position aa you are by birth, education and experience fitted to adorn, dont allow this foot to discourage yon from entering this noble profession. Take a lower position, if necessary. If you can't get a managing editorship St $10,000 a year, there are many other very desirable places on a newspaper in JQaot they are all of that character. Nothing can be more erroneous than the popular idea, (inculcated sedulously by journalists themselves for tho discouragement ol those who would and ought to enter the profession) that newspaper work Is peculiarly hard and remarkably ill-paid. The case is quite the contrary. As reporter on a journal, or as night or news editor, any young man of sound constitution, unflagging industry, rapidity of execution, a fair knowledge of

English grammar, an Intimate acquaintance with rhetoric and a pretty thorough familiarity with most of tho sciences, can readily earn from $15 to $25 a week, by working from ten in the morn Ing till two or throe tho next morning, with a good prospect of a permanent place for ton or twelve years—about as long, for somo inexplicable reasob, as most men care to follow this brilliant and fascinating life. By all moans take a situation of this kind, if you can't do better. You may not, it is true, have so much ease, wealth and luxury, as yon might In pursuing the trado of a tinner or a stono-mason, but yeu will be infinitely more honored and,what is more, you will feel that you are In arising profession, the rising profession infect, and that you have taken the shortest road you could find to the graveyard over on tho lilll. Having considered the subject in all its lights and bearings we have no hesitation in recommending the profession of journalism to tho scores of young men who have recently descended from the graduating rostrum to take apart in the activo pursuits of life,

People and Things.

T&rly-two nulliouaires at SixktogL Iowa claims to have 26,000 spiritualists.

The Dane is the longest lived of all Europeans. Nobody has been hung in Florida for three vears.

Professor Swing preaches U» four thousand persons every Sunday. John Stocking, deceased, of MUlsville. Wis., thought it wasn't loaded.

A Connecticut burglar is worth $75,000 all acquired by sticking to business. A. T. Stewart never forgets a friendnot If the friend owes him any thing.

Boston is pronounced a paradise of ministers—good wages and prompt pay, Tho Methodist Episcopal Church has 450 presiding oldcre, and they cost 8§Q0, 000 a year.

Many a follow who can write tear producing poetry would not be worth a oen. to wport a dog «ght. fggft

Thousands of poor men are spending as much for newspapers as would buy a good mint julep every day.

The editor of a Colorado paper recent ly published a card stating that he had not been hanged, as had been wrongful ly stated.

Josh Billings iavs "Sucetws dont konslst in never making blunders, but in never making the same ono the seek' ond time."

It was Goethe who said that the most dreadful wild beast in the world was boy. Ever since the fourth we have believed him.

When your pocket-book gets empty and everylfsly knsws it, you can put all your Mends in it and It wont "bulge out" worth a cent*

An Iowa circus drew a big crowd by advertising that Behayier Colfttx would enter the ring on a bet of fSOQ that he could ride the trick mule.

Texas is Ml of mysteries. A matt was put ln jail the other night at Bryan, and the next morning he was found hanging to a tree a quarter of a mile aw^.

To alioy brought before him, the other day, tor defending his mother from the brutality of his fkther, New York Judge said: "Young msn, I am proud to see that you love your mothsr and are anxious to protect her, but your violence toward your ftther has been of a

very vigorous character. Try and keep your hands off your father, but in any event protect your mother from iinjury. Yon may go,"

One man Is silent, another talks all the time, and twelve wise men condemn the man who has not said a word." (A Chinamen's description of an American court.) "VSHN* i&'Hf

Pittsburg Commercial: These are the days in which would-be Congressmen are buttonholing the men, flattering the women, and klosing the babies with awl and smiduity.

A Maine painterwalked three miles to paint a hearse, the other day, under a stipulation that his psy should bes free ride when in the course of nature it became necessary for him to employ such a conveyance. *.

When a stranger stands on a public square in Denver, spits on his hands and cries out: "Climb on me by thousands!" even the Postmaster pulls off his coat and goes out to make the response a success.

An engineer on the Western North Carolina railroad shouted to a crowd of rustics who had gathered to see the first train of cars come in: "Put down your umbrellas! you'll scare the engine off the track!" The umbrellas were lowered at once.

The boy problem will never be solved as long as the training of children Is left to women. What a history there is In tho words of the honest-foced man who yosterday stood in a door-way and said to a neighbor, solemnly and half confidentially "That woman has done her est to raise her boy right but

she can't do It." A wag with the word "wh'tSS," brought a horse, driven by a young man, to a dead stop. "That's a fine beast of yours," says the wag. "Yes, a pretty good sort of an animal, but he has one fault. He was once owned by a butcher and is sure to stop when he hears a calf bloat." Wag doesn't say "whoa" to that homo any more.

The presence of men and women together In the dissecting room of the Boston university, which is open to both sexes, has an excellent effect. One of the professors declares that he has never known the tone of any dissecting room to be so elevated and exceptionable as this has been, and that he has never been in any other room for that purpose in which there has been "in so marked a degree an absence of whatever has the semblance of immodesty or vulgarity." [Cer. Forney's Press.

A man who had been cruel to a horse was convicted, in little Shasta, California. Tho jury fixed the fine at one dollar, and the justice followed with speech. This man's been tried four times, gentlemen of the jury," he said, and you're the first twelve that had sense enough to find him guilty. But what under heavens did you make jacka of yourselves for by putting the fine at one dollar, after you'd done an average decent thing. Taint any of your business anyway what he's fined I'll look after that myself. It'll bo sixty dollars."

Stokes hMWmpdratW time at Sing-Sing. He wears the prison garb, Is locked up in his cell at night, and, of course, does not go outside of the prison walls. Besides this, he is scarcely more confined than an ordinary clerk In a New York mercantile house. His hair, cut short when he entered tho prison, is drifting away from tho Penitentiary style, and his beard is allowed to grow, He was, for a while, in the hospital where he had his quarters night and day. He Is now In the bookie department, where he is clerk, and proves him self a good book-keeper. He says he has not been in as good health for years as now.

Connubialities.

What beats a good wife? A bad hus'iU id. Mr. Stocking has been and married Anna Frost. "Hose-Annat" "Unmanned by the lew of her husband," is tho newest style of indicating a widow's grief.

Josh WlJiiMpi says "there ta two things In this lift for which we are never prepared, and that is twins."

There Is one happy man In California. Hie papers inform us that he thinks so much sf his l«wiy young wife, that he lights a candle two or three times every night to take a look at her*

Mourning the dead Is not, per a virtue, nor la a profitable or wbolesome occupation. It is a natural and ntmmry incident ©f a sense of respect for the departed and of pereeaal torn. It Uteta encouraged and treated sympawithin proper limits. But when We «eq widows, In their prime and capable of every service and pleasure, yxfminjriy vising with one another in the dtopth or daratkm of their denxa*strations of grtsf, as one whoahouUl say,

I yield to no one In my esteem and love for the partner I have tort and I will not be ont-mowmed by any of yo»i,M

or, It shall nsver be said of me that I showed no feeling," etc^ one Is tempted to think that a husband who oould wish such posthumous devotion is unworthy of It,

A Kalamasoo Judge went to a neighboring town to see a man, and telegraphed back to his wife: "Have found

Jariand I wont be home in a week." When the dispatch readied her It read: Have found girl, and wont be home In a week.." Here let us draw a veil.

The Washington Capital says of therecent marriage of a young society man with a "ballet girl" of that city: If the youth acted foolishly in marrying a ballet girl, he might have acted just ss foolishly in marrying a society girl. No one knows how it may turn out."

Feminitems.

Written for The Malt] L18B8 TO Alt OLD BOXKKT.

Behold this wr«ek It crowned a skull, Twin onoe with woman'* glory full ThU brtmleM shell wa» Pride'» retreat, This crown was Fashion's shifting seat. What short-lived triumphs filled this spot! What woman'senvious glances caught! Nor plume, nor veil, nor costly ratr, lias loft one shred of trimming nere. Prom out tills holey canopy Once scrutinised a womani eye.* But sniff not at this ragged straw, If taste in other hats it saw. if with no scornful fire it burned At ethers'bonnet-ribbon turned, This hat, ev'n now, seems far more flair, Than when enthroned 'mid costly hair. Within this musty fabric swung, A »wi rt. exaggerating tongue. But if the funds it charged to meet Were never cast at Fashion's feet If to its other half it showed— Excepting none—the debts It owed. This hat, tho' old, more bliss confers Than when It left the milliners.

ROCKvime. —{BBUCE. Goldsmith Maid Is 17 years old. The English have hanged another woman.

There are over 10,000,000 women in America. A predominance of short dresses is reported from Paris.

A young Keokuk lady set her pa's house on fire because ho wonldnt pay dry goods bills.

Mrs. Murphy, of Arkansas, fought a rattlesnake for thirty minutes and licked him. She was a hot Murphy.

Mrs. Van Cott says she has converted 1,735 persons. She hopes to make the number 1,778 by the centennial year.

Any aristocratic woman at Cape May, wonld prefer to die rather than be rolled on a barrel on the beach in the hope of resuscitating her.

Ladies who take no particular pleasure in the looking-glassareeasily recognised by the fact of their wearing a gnure veil over their fhces, even in the hottest Summer day.

At the commencement of a Wisconsin academy, eighteen girls played *kn aria from "La Dame Blanche" on six pianos. Let us return thanks that yfe live in Massachusetts. Six pianos "to wunst!"— [Boston Globe.

A ffcshion writer informs us that It "Is quite the thing for fashionable ladies on the promenade to wear a bunch of natural flowers stuck in the belt." The pretty dears, we suppose, are anxious to have something natural about them.

Somebody has been showing up closet skeletons in Atlanta by moans of postal cards. An indignation meeting has boen held, but ventilation doesnt help the matter. The trouble Is generally laid to a merchant's wife, who has been slighted socially. ushm Nancy King entered Dutch Hank for a, race to road wagons, with lady drivers, near Syracuse las* weok. But when tho formers' wives who had entered the lists found that Nancy was as black as the aoe of spades, the Granger blood was up, and Dutch Hank was nowhere. They ruled her out, and now she means to sue the white trash.

New York Mail: "This Is the way she put her foot in it: Just as she was about to take the seat he ofifcred her In the street-car, she said, snappishly: 'If there were any gentlemen In the car thev would not allow a lady to go the length ef it before giving her seat.* Then the brutal wan slid quickly back Into his seat and quietly remarked! 'I think the ladles are ail seated.'»

A Pennsylvania girl who weighed 100 pounds consulted a fortune-teller as to bow to reduce her weight, and was told to drink strong vinegar in limited doses three times a day, before her meals. The girl followed the prescription for five months, and now weighs only 115 pounds. True, she Is completely broken down in health—dyspeptic, ii' vous, lethargic, and generally despondent. Her color la gone, her eyes dull, and all ambition seems to have departed. But

Darin* the recent revival In Quincy* Hammond afr^o-ched an unpromising subject for prayere, and asked ho* b. feltV' 'Do you Me anything green t" mid the man, pointing to his eye, m»oh as to any he was not a snbfct for conversion. '^No, my friend," MrT H. replied, "but

see something red—y°«r

itoMHHUid it took 1000 to paint It, if you paid for the drinks." |i^

Said Yon be you a was born in whipped yo«

America to his papa

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"Yea, my eon, I kd." -Well, wt lb* •iHitiiil.ar.

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