Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 5, Number 21, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 21 November 1874 — Page 4
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\I7ANTED—A GOOD TAILOR ONE that YT can cat and make Garments of ail lands. A steady place can be had for a man of steady habits. None other need apply A man with flunlly preferred. Apply im mediately or addrwa SMITH HARTLEY Qhrlsman, Edgar Co., Ills. oct24
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SALE—EIGHTY-FIVE ACRES OF in Parke county, southwest corn er of Florida township-^ acres under enl ti vat Ion, balance timber—half mile of railload station. School home on land. Enquire of J. N. WALKER, near the land, or aridrww him at Athcrton, tnd. nov21-2m
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rtJND-THAT WITH ONE STROKE OF you can reach, with an advertisement Iti the Saturday Evening Mall, almost evfry reading family in this city, as well as the reridenteof the towns and oauntry surrounding Terre Haute. T7WUND—THAT THE SATURDAY EVEX: ning Mall is the most widely circulated newspaper in the State outside of Indianapolis.
Society Meetings.
O. TJ» A. M.—Franklin Council, No. 10, Order Of United American Mechanics meets every Monday evening in American Mechanics Hall, nerthwest corner of Fifth and Main streets, at 8 •'clock. All members and visiting members are cordially invited to attend our meetings.
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THE MAIL
A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
P. S. WESTFALL,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
TERRE HAUTE, NOV. 21, 1874.
SECOND EDITION.
TWO EDITIONS
Of this Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Friday Evening, has a large circulation in the surrounding towns, where it la sold by newsboys and agents. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Even lug, goes into the hands of nearly every reading person in the city, and the farm era of this immediate vicinity.
Every Week's Issue Is, in flwt, [j TWO NEWSPAPERS, In which all Advertisements appear for
ONE CHARGE.
THANKSGIVING.
One would almost think from the manner in which the proclamations fly
about
that somebody was determined
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to observe the new national holiday of Thanksgiving. President Grant first issues his orders, and then oomes Gov, Hendrioks backing np what the Presi dent has commanded. For our part we do not need all this official authority and urging to be persuaded to knock off work,—"suspend ordinary avocations," is the dignified way of putting it—and to eat a good dinner and have a good time generally. If any of our readers rebel against a rest day and turkey dinner, we advise them to heed the injunction of the good book, and be subject to the powers that be, lest the state and federal forces be sent in to bring them to submit to lawful authority. Next Thursday is the day, and therefore this is the last opportunity The Mail will have to utter its note of warning. If any, of whatever sex, age, na tionality or color, whose names are on our list of subscribers, fail next Thursday to quit work, dress up, go to church, eat chicken for breakfast, turkey, chick-en-pie and plum pudding for dinner, and stuff themselves generally with good things, wo give due notice that their sames will be dropped, their subscriptions forfeited, and the chromoa recalled. The Mail is bound to stand by the President and Governor, in main taining-obedienco to all Thanksgiving proclamations.
Governor Hendricks hints that In diana has special occasion for gratitude because others are worse off than itself. While we do not take much stock in the gratitude which prompts the giving of thanks that the afflictions of the year have fellen upon others instead of ourselves, yet there is good reason for gratitude that the terrible calamities which have befallen some portions of the land have not visited all parte of it. And it IB probably easier for us, who are in the exempt portions, to feel and express this gratitude than for those who are not so highly favored. While the grasshopper bus devasted some states, and the drought destroyed the crepe in others, Indiana has had a year of unusual abundance. The expression of gratitude which will be the most indicative of sincerity, and the most acceptable to the Author of all good, will be the offering of a generous share of our own good things to those who have not. It is the very height of selfishness and meanness to thank God for our own prosperity while we cling to ovary good thing which He has given na and let others suffer. It is in effect fishing "We thank the Lord that we are well off and don't oareapin for any body ewe." If the Lord does not order it next year so that all who do tbifc wljl be among the sufferers and find none to help them, it will not be because He could—we were going to write,ought—not injustice to do •o. By all means let nssing praises and pray,and religiously stuff ourselves, but above all let us remember the poor at home or abroad, or, better yet, both those at home and those abroad.
Bat it w»a not our purpose so much to give advice in reference to the manner of observing the day as to indicate the m»trt feature of it, where it exists in its native vigor. As is well known, Thanksgiving is a Yankee invention, and about as good and useful an invention as ever came from the prolific brain of that Inventive people. The war made iheday national one, and it is rapidly growing in popular fkvor and general observance, in «D iparta of the land. Kit only in New England does it exist in all Its power «ad beauty.
Thanksgiving hi emphatically a home day, a day for family gatherings. Fourth of July belongs to tbs nation, and it is fitting to observe it with public celebrations, spread eagle speeci»e%procttw}tna, and—to keep peace with the boys—with fire crackers and guns. Christmas is the world'sday,—net the wicked world wWeb )s is partnership with the flesh and the dtaril*—bat the world of men wotnen, gOod and bad. It ia the day on which all nations may equally celebrate the gift of gifts. But Thanksgiving from its origin, and the manner rf iteolisoi »a»ss hereto#®**, is especially devoted- to the fcnUly. The one great fesiote «f the day where it has be«n Jottgwt and be* known, to th# gathering of children and children's cMklron amund the hearthstone of the oldest living ancestor. The day before Thanksgiving the trains of ears are the longest of the year, often three or four times their tenia! length, and are crowd«d do the very utmost. It is seldwm that a train is so long that many Are not Akotpsltod tostand. Iknimw men, who toff t»» «5i)^r day in the y*Mr. tak" u'.ff ft"tl sj to t't»' ol a iv N
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visit to the old homestead on this day, and the young married couple go bade for the first visit since the wedding. So the can are crowded with sober and earnest business and professional men and their families, laboring men with wives and babies, all dressed in their best, young brides and grooms whoa year before were lovere, spruce young men going to spend the day with their sweet hearts, college boys rollicking and singing their jolly songs, boys and girls from boarding schools, derks and apprentices, and every class imaginable. One who has not been in New England can hardly imagine the general outpouring which accompanies this day. Many are the tables at which three and four generations sit down, and now and then are those at which five generations appear. And when all do not come home, it is the day when the absent are thought of and talked of with more than ordinary tenderness. The value of the day in perpetuating and strengthening the fkmiiy interest, reuniting those whose Individual interests have drawn asunder for an entire year, is incalculable. It is just suoh a holiday as the family needs, especially in this country where there is such a tendency to separation.
At the west we are not old enough to appreciate this day, or to celebrate it, as it is appreciated and celebrated in the older sections of the country. The old homesteads, where fktbers and fathers' &thers were born and lived, are not here yet. There are a good number of par ents with children away from home, some grand-parents, but even these are not generally the very aged and as for great-grand-parents, they are almost unknown among us. But we shall grow to it. The years are rapidly flying by and all these things come with years. We want this day consecrated to home. We ought to celebrate it to the best of our ability, and ere we who are now en the stage pass off, we may rejoice in a regular old-feshioned Thanksgiving when our children, grand-children, and great-grand-children, shall come trooping home to make our old hearts glad. Long live Thanksgiving, and long may the readers of The Mail live to eqjoy it.
AN eastern paper tells us that by common consent most of the old political issues, which have divided the two great parties of the country, have been laid on the shelf, and in the future both will have to address themselves to the new and living ones which are now thrust upon the country.' This sounds refreshingly, and we welcome the advent of these novelties with real satisfaction. Some of our cotemporaries, who for years past have Allen into a sort of stereotyped routine, will be compelled to draw out of the ruts in which they have been running so long, and try the new path just prepared for them. It will go a little awkward at first, perhaps, but patience and perseverance will effect much.
IT is a popular idea that the school fund of Indiana—the largest of any State in the Union, amounting to about eight million dollars—consists of money or available securities. The fhet is most of it has been expended by the State, and all there is to show for it is the State's bonds given to the State—an obligation that could never be enforced in any court. This simply pledges the faith of the commonwealth to raise a certain amount of money annually for school purposes. It is like a fether boprowing and spending his children's money and putting a memorandum of the amount in bis depleted pocket-book.
Wat there be a change in the Cabinet? This is one of the exciting questions growing out of the late elections. President Grant may yield to what appears to be a pretty general demand, and ask that his lieutenants hand in their porfolios, but it he does it will be a departure from his ordinary course. Nearly all of the Cabinet officers are peisonal friends of the President, and it was thoqght they were selected on that ground rather than upon their eminent fitness. Be that as it may, there will be a dead set made against some of them, without any indications at present whether it will be successful or not.
So umo as the administration maintains a "Weather Bureau" it may confidently expect to be held responsible for the weather. This is often unfavorable to crops, and thus is produced serious dissatisfaction, net only in the rural mind, but throughout all business circles, for all are dependent on the products of the soil. No party can stand up long under suoh an incubus.
Ovn good result of the war is the nationalising of our animal Thankglving day. Previously each Governor appointed the day, and BOOM neglected it entirely now from ocean \o ocean a whole people, on the same day, celebrate their gratitude to the Ruler of all—a grateful and hungry people give thanks and gorge themselves with stuflbd turkeys.
Tamut la reason to doubt the political sagacity of the Chicago Inter Ocean when it demands the passage of the Civil rights bill at the next session of Oongreas. "The people," It says, "recorded their disgust at the cowardice of the Republican party ia the Lower House dt the late elections."
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BEM ftmoit is moving Into one of his new houses jnst south of the Capitol at Washington. He has an elegant new block there, not yet completed. Most of it will be occupied by the United State* Coast Survey.
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CoRORas meets two weeks from Monday. INPKPKNDKNT journalism K» exalting itS hom. ^jjaBBsBsHEaHWeOT
Tun clans are gathering in force at Washingtom^^^^^^^^^ OKE-FTFTH of the United States army deserts anpually!
THB Speaker of the next House will probably be made of Wood. .i imk
THIS nearest approach to the North pole has been about 600 miles.
A 8THONG eastern influence concentrating on our governor for President.
THK Inter-Ocean calls the political result "an avalanche of popular insanity." s^ssgaagsa!ss
THS Cnshman's latest farewell to the the stage is said to be only a Charlotte ruse
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THE Democracy threatens to abolish "Old Prob" as
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ss they get hold of
the reins. TBIBTBRN States, commencing with New Hampshire, in Marob, will hold elections in 1875.
FIVE members of the late Confederate States government baye been elected to the 44th Congress.
THERE are only one thousand gas burners in the new residence of the British minister at Washington.
CONGRESSMAN WILSON of this State is still honored by the most cordial and intense hatred of Boss Shepherd's District of Columbia Ring.
TEXAS makes a loud and well-found-ed appeal for troops to protect her frontier from the cruel, blood-letting, devastating raids of Mexican outlaws.
THE colored members-elect of the 44th Congress think they may be able to get along without our Rice, as they prefer a radical change from their old plantation diet.
MR. VOORHEES' principal competitor for the United States Senate is so well used to being beaten in his political con tests, that another defeat will not hurt him much.
NEW YORK is considerably agitated jnst now ovor the Sunday question, growing out of those so-called "Sacred Concerts." running into full-fledged operatic performances.
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IT seems funny to see the Express ridiculing Spiritualism as it does in referring to the death and materialisation ot the Democratic party. But this is a world of change!
THE Democracy do not, thus for, foreshadow any purpose to make radical or speeping changes in our State legislation, except in the matter of Congressional and legislation redistricting.
THE Richmond Whig, which is nothing, if not sectional, advocates an alliance between the South and West. "They are," it says, "both sick of hard times and opposed to hard money."
THE in-coming Legislature will be likely to take a long step toward the erection of a new State House. There is nothing political in this, and the work should be steadily, not hastily, prosecuted.
WHICH of the two great parties will have the sagacity to go into the campaign of 76 with the motto "Free Cuba1* inscribed on its banner? Young America would rally round that piece of buntin! ____________
DTTBIHG his recent visit to Washington, Governor Hendricks exhibited a strong leaning towards McDonald for Senator. This was natural enough, but by no means indicative of the sucoess of Mr. McDonald's hopes.
IN a recent lecture room talk Mr. Beecher s&id: "I do think it is the wickedest thing in the world to thump a child on the the head with a thimble." "But, Mr. Beecher, there are wickeder things," insinuatingly says the wicked BosUn Post. /rr
RUMOR charges that a very prominent and influential Democrat of this city is secretly working against Mr. Voorhees for Senator, and giving his influence in fhvorof McDonald, "TOte fhir," gentlemen. "Let all things be done decently and in order."
THERE is not a man in the United States who does not know, at least by reputation, our townsman Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees. But when you mention the name of Hon. Joseph E. McBonald, outside of this State, nine, men out of ten Inquire, "who's lief"
OOBN" in England is lower than it "has over been, within living memory: and "corn" over here is about as high as it has been in the same length bf time. But "corn" in England means wheat, and "corn" over here means maixe, and that makes an amaring difference.
A RESPECTABLE newspaper correspondent, whose opportunities for gaining information have been ulnusually good, ventures the prediction that Matt Carpenter will be President before the end of 1875. He relies on detirinm tremeti* and paralysis to clear Matt's way to the White House.
WHAT will Ben Butler db when he gets back to Washington Will be stand up for laic party, or, exisperated by the unmerciful attacks made upon him by nearly ail the Journals of the Administration, as well as of the opposition, will he stand at bay, and, show
THK other day Mrs. Walker sent by express from Dm Msinea, Iowa, to her husband at Putt Dodge, thfttr HttJe 8ir^d child. pre u# package]ins his teeth, warn all who approach v. .. .!•}'-.» I Si„J, and went! him that .hs#. #*t lost power of
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THB idea of "popular governnaent" entertained by the average United States Senator is a sort of cewpHantae between the absolute despotism of Charles I. and the democracy of Jefferson. To illustrate this point and show whither we are tending, it is only necessary to take a corsory glance at the official reports of Senate debates. For instance, during the discussion of the financial question, during the last session, Judge Edmunds, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Commute, a ripe scholar and profound lawyer, declared that it was the duty of Senators not to be swayed by popular clamor, but, in their superior wisdom, to carefully survey the field and find out, not what the people demanded, but what would be best for the people: best not for to-day or to-mor-row, but for long years to come. These are not the Senator's own words, bat they fairly express bis meaning. And there was not found a single Senator to take issue with him. In that body which, whatever may be said to the con trary, really contains a large number of able statesman, there la undisguised contempt of the people. Having the State Legislatures to stand between them and their real masters, Senators feel that their backs are for removed from the lash of public indignation and set up their own will in opposition to clearly expressed public opinion, which they 8neeringly allude to as "the clamor of the populace." The plain remedy for this is to take the election of Senators from second hands, to make them dependent directly on their masters for votes, without the intervention of "mid-dle-men." This will be one step toward regulating the tone of that body. Another step that will eventually be reached will be either the equalisation of the voting power of communities in the Senate, or its entire abolition.
THE Philadelphia Star tells lis that in that city in one of the windows of a Chestnut street jewelry shop there is on exhibition an outfit ot jewelry made to order, and costing, as the placard states, |30,000. The mystery to the ordinary looker-on is, what will the lair one do with all those gorgeous charms, necklaces, breastpins, earrings, brooches medallions, and the dear only knows what else, that go to make up the assortment.
And yet all these superb and costly articles are for the adornment of one woman 1 Will she be the happier for being the undisputed possessor of them, or will they, as is to frequently the case, be a torment to their owner Let us hope that they will carry with them only joy, and that the fair wearer cf them will net in her wealth of jewelry forget those to whom a barrel of flour, a load of coal, a comfortable blanket, or a good warm pair of shoes would be greater luxuries, and bring as much joy, as will these sparkling gems carry with them to her young heart.
ENGLAND has at least one "Institution" that America has not yet seen fit to introduce, and that is the pretty barmaid. Neither has any other country that we have heard of. To secure the sen ices of a finely formed girl with a pretty face, and have her bedecked with fine clothes, is the great desideratum with the British rum seller. These poor girls work from fifteen to seventeen hours per day, amid the chaffing, the brawls and the oaths tf all classes of drinkers, from the sprig of no bility, bent on squandering the "governor's" substanoe, to the roue and the blackguard, for the pittance of ten or twelve shillings per week on which to foed and clothe themselves. Once a yoar a show of barmaids is made at Woolwich, where congregate the poor things that areout of places, to be stared at and quizzed by the miserable beings who usually run the average English bar. The scene Is described very like the old slavq^jg^q^naUons previous to an auction.
THE washing of postage stamps ia probably the most profitable species of laundry work in this or any other oountry. Third assistant Postmaster General Barber estimates that the government is annually defrauded out of fl,000,000, or about 5 per cent, of the amount of stamps sold, by the use of stamps that have been used once and then washed, and fitted for use a second time. This seems an enormous sum, but Mr. Barber has given the matter long and careful examination. Who it is, or what organized band of men is not yet known, but it IB evident that the washing of stamps has become a systematized business. As yet, the government has only one method of revenge. In many cases a washed stamp can be easily detected. When this happens, and postmasters are requested to scrutinize closely, the letter on which the washed stamp is found* is forwarded to the dead letter office.
There is a man living at the Carroll county, N. IL, poor form, who spent all hia property in a law suit where the sum Involved was only fS, and he had two opportunities to settle for $6, when he knew he was in the wrong, and admitted as much.
MARIUAOS LICENSES.—The following marriage Uoenses have been haraed by the County Cleric since oar last report:
William McMortic and Msttio Wyatt. James N. LangworthT and Alice G. Grif^(jheonte RoM»n and 8a*»h Turner. jOhnRiag and Sarah K. Bhewmaker.
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sUward and Elisabeth McClung,
Maurice Uvlor and Hanorah Sullivan. Matthew A. Jones and Louisa J. Jacobs. James M. IU*i*y and Ilattie K. Haynes.
INTERMENTS.—The following 1* a list of Interments in the city cemetery since last report:
Nov.
Ift-Mre. Martha K.ntk, tug*81 year- typhoid pnetuowia. t«—Tn-frj-ntof A ^nsa/l^aaMlaitf
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[Mr. Caudle, (who is notagrangor) discevend in bed all o'clock A. X., while Mrs. C. (who is Pomona at the Urange) has just ar-: rived fraiu (M Council, an# is unlacing fcer booCa.}
Mr. G., (sarcastically) "Back so soon, eh Whjr -did you hurry yourself, uaadam? l*hi sure there's nothing to see to heri, that you should, return so soon." (witk emphasis, and glancing at the dock). To be sure the baby has near squalled ttself to death, and Johnny had a fit, and Nanny the toothache all the evening, and I had no supper, and—and—but, of course, that's nothing oh, no, Indeed I Get it myself? That's what yoiiwant, is it? I have as much right to tend the children as yon have, you say? Is that what tbis precious grange business teaches you And to think (jrigbing ostentatiously) that I married that woman when I might have had— But never mind! She was one worth dossen going now-a-days. I'd better had her, eh? You don't oelleve it? You do, madam dont say you do not ha, ha, you cant fool me! She'd never let her husband come home, wet and tired to death, slaving all day long for his family, (it's for myself, eh to a cold hearth, bawling children, no supper ready, and wife gone to some tom-feol-ery wkere they call her Pomona—ha, ha, ha, ha! I say Pomona to y5u! (Here by a reflex nervous action of bis right arm, he forcibly dashes his fist into the bolster)—But l*ve my suspicions of this grange business who knows where you'v* been—what do I mean? you say, so loftily. Yon know well enough, madam I'm not blind yet, thank heavens & I'm jealous, am I? Jealous of who, I'd like to know—not of a woman who leaves her home in a nerfeot mess, children all rick, and husband coming home, wet, tired and hungry, to find no supper ready or no nothing, and his wife, who promised to love, honor and obey, gone to the confounded grange! A fig for such wifos. I say. You want some recreation, is it? Who makes a slave of you? Recreation indeed! for a woman who leaves her children all sick, and no supyer ready for her hard-work-ing husband when ne conies homo wet and weary at night to find that she has
Slivaiitedthe
off with some Tom, Dick or
arryto dogrotted grange! Your brother took you, you say? Well, who said he didn't? Come, come there, now: there's no use howling over it. (Aside)—Good gracious, she'll wake my mother-in-law! (Anxiously) There, there, now it shall go to its grange, only dontee ky, my little poppet! I was only fooling there, now-—" And so it went on till the wretched man, now fully alive to the awful storm he had invoked, had been sufficiently humbled to be allowed to crawl into bed again and scratch his wife's back, while hideous thoughts of the morrow's retribution peopled his uneasy slumbers with horrid dreams. BRUCE,
FROM ONE WHO KNO ITS. [Geo. Harding's MeralcLJ We are in receipt of a communifcatlon from a citizen on the foil of Luther Benson. which contains some good points thai we would be glad to lay before the community but It is so complicated with abuse of the "whiskyite" editor of the People, and ridiculous rant about the "hell-hound liquor sellers," that we are compelled to decline it. The idea of a hell-hound chasing a reformed drunkard over the country, and forcing "liquid damnation" down his throat, is too absurd to be entertained by reasonable people. The fact is, when Benson "let o" his hold, he would have found whisif he had been compelled to go to the moon for it. When the temperance people learn to devote their energies to the liquor drinker instead of the liquor seller, they will find themselves on the right trail. .J
ROCKVILLE SCANDAL. Bill Knowleaia now devoting his time to the interests of education—building school houses.
Judge White says he wears largo boots in order that his corns may have room to grow—No. 12 we believe.
Howard Bryant says that he liked the first two hours of Boardman's Temperance Lecture very well after that it grew monotonous.
As Zach Overman got his mad up a wee bit at the pufifo we have given him heretofore wo will let him rest this week. .Ss
A rural friend of oars in making an announcement of a protracted meeting, said: "The meeting will be commenced on Friday night and Hell over Sunday.
Henty Daniels moves into Nichols new building about the 1st of Dec. A former lawyer of this place spelled socks "BOX," and when tola that it was not right, be corrected the mistake by adding another "s," viz: Soxs.
Bill Enowles is not happy his dog Pete is gone. Jake Hunnell reads law in seventeen different languages and guarantees satisfaction to both plaintiff ami defendant. An accomplishment never attained by any attorney outside of Tammany Hall.
Dave 81rouse is business all over. Ho manages the office of county clerk, town clerk, and permanent secretary I. O. O. P. blows the long horn in the band. Besides all this he finds plenty of time to "rock the cradle."
What a fine looking military man Bill Cummings would make. If no Will accept the office of brevet Major in the regular army we wiil endeavor to secure the appointment for him.
Communicated. A curious incident occurred in our county last week. A beautiful dark eyed Miller turned White in less time than it takes to write this notice, and at the same time became a partner in the profits of the Recorder's
coons fairest daughters, Miss Mattie Miller. May their anticipated joys be more than realized, and may peace, happiness and prosperity attend them through life. S. K.
We will add to the above that Will looks "as usual as ever." ,. Capt. John B. Dowd was in Indianapolis this week as representative in the Grand Lodge and Grand Encampment
O. O. P. R. C. McDivitt will soon leave Rocktrille. Not as a contortionist or aymnasticuss, but as a partner with his brother in the law punlishing business in New York city.
It Is rumored that Bill Knowles, 0. W. Collings. J. P. Osborno and Charley Noel talk of organizing a select school for their children.
Query—Has our Marshal any authority over rude and noisy boys at public meetings, hotels and other places If he has it would gratiiy the citizens of Rockville if be would exercise bis authority.
The latest sensation—Walt' Paxson and Miller VoJujer buggy riding ou 1ant, Suti'i sy.