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THE MAIli

A PAPER

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PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TEHEE HAUTE, DEC. 5, 1874.

SECOND EDITION.

TWO EDITIONS .f

Of this Paper are published. n» FIRST EDITION, on Friday Evening, hna a large circulation In the surrounding towns, where it is sold by newsboys »n|d agents. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Evening, goes into the hands of nearly every reading person in the city, and tliw J'axm eta of this immediate vicinity.

Every Week's Issue is, in fact, TWO NEWSPAPERS, In which all Advertisements appear for

ONE CHARGE.

THEATERS.

The question whether theaters are beneficial or injurious to public morals, and ought or ought not to bepatroniated by those having the interests of the community at heart, and especially by religious people, is one which is discussed a great deal in public and in private. Just now, a Brooklyn divine, by a fierce onslaught upon theaters and actors, has caused the public attention to be turned to this subject to an unusual degree, and the discussion of the merits and demerits of theaters to bo carried on with unwonted vigor. Newspapers, secular and religious, correspondents, clergy men, actors, and actresses, each and all are having their say, and some pretty plain talk is going on.

As usual in such controversies the extremes on both sides of the question are wrong. It must be admitted that theaters are the source of a great amount of immorality aud vice, that they are often carried on so as to pander to the very lowest tastes, and even the basest passions, and that they provide, sometimes intentionally, and often without intention, facilities for the practice of vice and crime. It must also be admitted that those who resort to the stage are placed under strong and peculiar temptations, and that many actors and actresses are for from what they should bo morally. All this being true, 'there is a basis of sound reason in tho opposition which exists to theaters in the minds oTjnany in the community.

On the other hand it is quite as certain that the evils which we have named, do not necessarily accompany tho theater. That this is the case is evident from the fact, which must be admitted, that they do not always acoompany it., There are theaters so managed that they do not pander to low tastes and base passions. There are theaters, upon the stages of which, nothing low or demoralizing is permitted to appear. One ot the leading actors of the country has been at great pninw and expense to establish such a theater in New York. It is true that he made a failure of it pecuniarily. But that only proves that the people demand plays which are immoral—that the people are bad and not that theaters are necessarily so. Then in a theater,which, like our Opera House, is supplied by different companies, which come for a single night, or for a tew nights, there are many performances in which there is nothing obfectienable from beginning to end. And certainly no one supposes that, intentionally or unintentionally, facilities for vice and crime are provided either at Dowling Hall or the Opera House*. Or certainly there are no more facilities for vice provided than there would be if religious services were held in these places. Every public gathering is necessarily a means which can be used, by those so disposed, for intrigue and clandestine meetings. And then as to actors and actresses, not only are they not necessarily bad,but a modi larger proportion of them than is ordinarily .supposed, are pure and honorable men and women, who would compare favorably with those who are engaged in almost any other pursuit or profession, and some of tho names most honored among men, In this country and in other countries, for the intelligence, moral parity, and general worthiness of their possessors am the names of members of the dramatic profession. Who will cast the first stone at such men and women as Edwin Booth, Joe Jefferson, Jaunaschek, Ristorl, Charlotte Cnshman, Kale Field, Maggie Mitchell These are a few of the more prominent oftes,at whose feet no man or woman need hesitate to gft as a humble learner oftruth and duty. And there are many others, with less dramatic power than those, but who are their equate all other respects. The wholesale donanciations of the ptofesstan are oot in aoeordanoe with troth or reaaee. Ifthen thsr* are tbeat«ra which are eendocts* in accordance with ths principles of morality, and plays which are elevating ifc their Influence, and actots sad actresses who are both intelligent and pore,, the theater is not necessarily bad.

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the common sense principle would eeetn to be, to keep awiy from It when ills bad, and 90 when it is good. If one were to collect all the bad books there are in the eommnnity, or point oat all the erflft whkfc eome from reading them, h* could make a strong argument against books and authors, and *und Uwsreon a powerful appeal against reding. Hot Instead of heeding stash an appeal, peofiie would rather feel themselvas bound to exercise the greater care MI to the kind of becks whieh should come into tbotr house*, or fall into the hands of their children. Or, somejw^ai»y«ay that !«*.} ng i*Koi«por* taut that must encourage it, while i?» wn«!i» a we i-ikf* •«?.« its an i'' u--!T*liofs. *l1:"«are n« my SQi»rs ansd !-:-any

public singers who are willing tp qlng them for pay. Moral people »ta between the low and the high-toned, the pure and the impure, and

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CHEAP MEALS AND LODGING. Soup houses, in which people are fed free of all cost, it is generally admitted have proved a failure. There have been plenty of patrons, as there always will be of any thing that is free, whether it be free soup, or the abominable concoctions called "freo lunch." These houses have proved a failure because they have set a premium upon indolence, and served to attract into cities the very classes which ought to have remained in the country. The soup houses of New York, last winter, it is said, drew thousands of shiftless vagabonds into that city. These houses area failure also in their influence upon character. There is nothing dishonorable in receiving needed assistance. All men and women need the help of their fellowmen and women, in one way Or another, and they get it too. But anything which encourages persons to depend upon others for that which they can provide for themselves, is bad. And the direct effeot of free soup houses is to make "sponges," one of the very meanest uses to which human beings ever suffer themselves to be put. The human sponge is on unmitigated nuisance, and ought not to be encouraged, and his race ought not to be increased. All advertising of "free" assistance does encourage, and tend to increase this race of sponges. •The want which these soup houses were intended to meet, exists, however, and should b© met in some way. Now it is a startling fact, here in our own city, that mechanics and others who would be glad to care for themselves if they could, are going to the station house and applying for lodging. The one great need for the coming winter in this city is of a place where a plain, but substantial, meal can be obtained, and a comfortable night's lodging with respectable surroundings, at cost. We do not believe that abetter charity conld be devised than to provide such a plaoe. A meal such as we indicate could be furnished at a cost of ten cents, and lodging at ten or fifteen cents. It should be understood that nothing was to bo given away at this house, this would bet necessary is order to avoid the difficulties connected with a soup house, and besides, would be necessary In order to reach those who are willing, and who need to live economically, but who have too much honest pride sod self-respect to pat themselves on a level with the la^f, sponging crowd who would flock to a free soup house. They would pay for What they had, pay its cost, and Kit down at the table and rise up and walk out without any loss of self-re- •{)•*, the rule that nothing Is there given sway should be inflexible, in order to guard against all fear that in going in or coming out of that plaoe they would be thought of as beggars. A little money spent in starting such an «mterprtee would be well in vested. Those who needed help would £|et it, and get it in a way consistent with their self-re-qpeet. Beside*, the place oouldbokept neat and attractive with a comfortable fire and seats, and a lunch room attached where a eupol cofifee or tea could be had at any time for live cents, and slight refreshments at a small cost, and it would take away the excuse of many young men who areboatdittg and have no fire In their room*, for going to a saloon. Cannot something of this kind be donef We believe it only needs an energntic aad wine leader to be made perfectly practical and carried to success.

Tin***#* seats la the next Goagraa trill be contested bv Democrats. imir Jfa

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concerts. If so-called moral and

religions people would adopt this principle and do what too many of them do not now, via: stay away from all theatrical performances the chief attractions of which are tho facility afforded for studying the anatomy ot the actresses, and the immoral playa, and only attend those in which the dress and plays are such as they should be, they would do more to purify the theater, and make it an instrument for good, than can be done by a few staying away from all performances, and by the sweeping denunciation of all theaters, performers and attendants. If preachers would level their guns at immoral plays and performances, and at those of their own flocks who run after these, they wouldr carry with them the judgment and the conscience of their hearers, and of all ftjattuflfl in the community, and exert a greater influence over thoir conduct than they possibly ,can by a universal prohibition. The sentiment which makes it appear inconsistent for a man or woman who belongs to a church, to be seen at a theater on ahy occasion, is not only wrong, but it has a tendency to lower, or to keep low, the character of this class of amusements. We confess that we have often wondered how some prominent christian men, and especially christian women, could, without shame be seen at, or coming from, some of the most indecent plays put upon the stage. And wo believe that tho effect should be, to create a stronger public sontiment against such plays, rather than against theaters and plays as a whole. We bobelieve that this course would tend directly, and with no fjmall power, to elevate both tho character of the stage, and character of the people.

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ALL the magazine? are most interesting in December. The most of the subscriptions for the ooming year are sent in this month, you know.

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themselves and to their children, this one is not fit to attend, and that other one is fit. They go to the latter and stay away from the former. There certainly is no more difficulty in discerning between the character of different theatrical companies and performances, than between different troupes of singers

THE Jersey City Presbytery has acquitted the Rev. John S. Glendonnlag of all ttonneetlon with that Mary Femeroy aflkir. Now trot out another preacher. fiKN. BOTLEK is planning anew party on the basis of protective tariff to tickle the east and paper money to draw in the west. He is of the opinion that the Republican party has accomplished its mission—has east its last presidential vote.

THK new postal law, compelling publishers to pay postage in advance, which goes into effect on the first of January, has lead many publishers of weekly newspapers to add the postage to the subscription price, making the price for a year $2.15, The price of The Mail will not be increased.

A WASHINGTON correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette says the discontent amongst Republican Congressmen with the President, that was so noticeable a year ago, has evidently greatly increased in the last few months, and the

anti-administration

wing has grown to

formidable proportions. Many complain that Grant is determined that if he can not be the next President, no other Republican shall be if he can prevent it.

THE young lady who whistles defends herself in the Christian at Work, as follows:

Let nO one deny mo the privilege of whistling when sitting alone at my sewing machine. If I am compelled to walk the street alone at night, I never fear danger at an approaching footstep if it is accompanied with the mupic of whistling. I do not believe a porson can Whistle who is intent on evil."

LITTLE Delaware cannot be shamed, or talked, or reasoned out of a belief in tho reformatory, or, at least, tho preventatory use of the pillory and the whip. Reoently, at New Castle, eight offenders were flogged and three were pilloried. Delaware might? do worso to let her felons go unpunished, and she might do better by executing justice in a more humane manner, but there is one thing in favor of her system. When execution of sentence is once entered upon there is little chance of a pardon before the term is half served out.

THAT a hard winter is before the working women of the large and over-crowd-ed cities of the east is illustrated by the following from tho New York Sun:

The fact that over eight hundred young girls, most of whom Jiad never been on the stage, answered tin advertisement calling for two hundred girls to take part in the ballet of a spectacular drama, is very significant. There are not hundreds, but thousands of respectable young women in this city to whom the problem of life this winter looks very serious. At the best barely able to maintain themselves, the "hard times" have taken away the slender support, and a soup-house existence, or worse, stares them in the face.

TRAINING OF WOMEN. One of the most gratifying features of the times is the constantly increasing attention paid to the interests, and wants working women in the large cities. A new and very sensible departure from the well trodden paths in which such organizations have been following, has been taken by the Woman's Educational and Industrial Society of New York. Having introduced sewing machines and given instruction in the use of them to a great many applicants, they learned that the remuneration of sewing women was so wretchedly trifling, that it was impossible for them to eke out miy other than the most precarious subsistence, though they toiled sixteen hours out of the twenty-four.

The departure referred to is tho training of girls for household servioe, and the experiment, as far as it has been tested, has proven highly successful. Tho course of instruction embraces all the details of housekeeping, and is very thorough. Girls who graduate from this admirable school will not only be qualified to serve as household helps, but "it will fit them for mistresses of their own households and marvellously enhanoe their value in that capacity."

There is something so practical in this beautiful, philanthropic arrangement that it at once commendB itself to warm sympathy. One of its most marked effects will be the removal of the erroneous idea that household service is essentially menial. There are thousands of comfortable homes awaiting competent household helps homes where they will be treated with kindness and courtesy, and where they will receive fiur better pay for their services than they can make at the sewing machine or behind the shop-counter.

DRINKING FOR THE EFFECTS. [Saturday Night.] He said he didn't eare anything about liquor, only the effects. He never liked the taste of it, always made him "gag" to drink It 1 and he made u» anawM free as he took it down. But it was the sfffeete he was after. If It ww»* for the omxts he would never drink a drop of iiquor in his life. He was a nice young man when we first heard him say thaC He had health, good looks, property and a respectable portion!to s«^j% The only perceptible effects of his potattons then were the heightened color in his ebeek, increased brilliancy of rtf lores and vivacity in conversation. He was renerous and liberal with his money, t^andhad a "host of friends." Well, he kept on drinking for the effects and he got them, as every man fiU who keetaa at it long enough. The last time w^saw htm he was t&t pitiful oitfe^ a human wreck. He was standing at a bar pleading for a drink on* time, hto

lor tbe effects until he hadn? any efferts left, except these painfully apparent ooen, poverty, disease, *"4 erily, he got vaStohU respectability. itbe eifecta.

GOTHAM QOSSIF.

Correspondence of The Mail.] NKW YORK, Dec 2. TffB ITALIAN OPBHA HKASOS.

The Italian opera season is over for the present, and the Academy of Music will be deserted until Miss Kellogg takes possession with her English Opera Company. Mr. Strakosoh has not met iqrita the encouragement that his efforts deserve, and it is not unnatural that he should feel discouraged. Last year he barely paid his expenses, and this year he has already lost $10,000. The peopfe go to the opera for one or two nights and then stop. That sort of pntronage is not g«ing to pay a manage*. Then they want anew opera every night. They will go to the same play week after week, but when it comes to opera that is another thjng. Now it is three times more expensive to mount an opera than a play. Very often "Jtip Van Winkle" has a run of two months at Booth's Theatre, and, aside from Mr. Jefferson, costs but a trifle. Nono of tho actors are stars with the oneexoention, and all the manager has to do Is to take in the money. At the Academy of Music it is very different. In the first plaoe "Aida" and

Lohengrin" cost Mr. Strakosch $20,000 each to bring out all the scenery, costumes and music being new, and "Lohengrin" costs $3,500 every night it is sung. Besides the regular troupe the orchestra and chorus are largely increased, there are four solo cornets 011 the stage, besides horses and other smaller things too numerous to mention. Mr. Strakosch provided Nilsson's dresses in this opera, and still hoids them in his possession. Mile. Albani did not wish to wear tho same garments that had become familiar to New York audiences on Nilsson's tall atid slender figure, and her agent wrote Mr. Strakosch to that effect. Mr. Strakosch replied that he thought it hardly fair that he should go to the expense of new costumes when the old had been worn but a few times. But with his usual liberality he offered to pay for the making if Mile. Albani would buy the material. The prima donna accepted this offer and appeared in beautiful new robes on Wednesday night last. The cost of the goods aioue for these two dresses was $800.- People hold up their hands in amazement at the large pay of operatic stars, but they forget that their expenses are very large also. A p)%ma donna as a rule finds her own dresses, the jost of which, judging by the above figures, must make quite a hole in her receipts.

There is one thing very certain, and that is that the public will growl at whatever a manager does for them. They would like Patti, Lucca, Wachtel and Santley for the quartette, Thomas' orchestra and the Boston Handel and Haydn Society as chorus, with reserved seats at $1, children half price and ministers and doctors free. They seem to forget that all this costs a manager something. It takes a fortune to oring an opera troupe to this country. In England the singers do not get more than half what they ask to come to America, and the other expenses are much loss and the price of admission much higher. Five dollars is the least you can get a seat for in Covent Garden or Drury Lane.

It is extremely doubtful whether Mr. Strakosch will take his troupe on a Western tour. He will be in Philadel-

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for two weeks and in Boston for hree. After his Boston engagement he will probably take Albani and the rest of his troupe to Havana and finish out the soijsou thsre. ......

PAINT, POWDER, ETC.

Since the early days of paint, powder and court-plaster patches, the ladies have net disguised, their natural complexions as completely as they are doing at the present time. Not long ago, one could tell a lady the moment he saw her now it is impossible to tell a Murray Hill belle from one of the demi-monde. Your own cousin, perhaps your sister too, blacks her eyes and paints her fece after the fashion which we used to think belonged to an entirely different class of society. I am utterly surprised when looking around me at the theatre or opera, to see persons whom I know to be ladies, painted like ballet girls. One is utterly bewildered at the matinees. The young ladies who follow the fashions appear with their feces painted, and often enameled, their eyes blacked, and sometimes with the lias painted red after a peculiar French style, and their hair brought down low on the forehead, and plastered lu regular scollops, an inch above their carefully, oorked eye brows. Then their lips are so heavily loaded with a saivelike preparation, that talking becomes an impossibility, and kissing utterly out of the question. Over this conglomeration, they wear a thin veil of the palest grey, sometimes dotted with black, which heightens the effect to an astonishing degree. Under all this stuff they may have a most beau tiful natural complexion, but that is not the feshlon, so they cover It out of sight but preserve it by bathing their feces in cold cream on going to bed. To say that these young ladies look downright fast, would be doing them scant justice.

And in the evening in full dress, or full undress 1 should say, these ladies outdo themselves. lam «iill talking of ladles of good families, please bear In mind. Tho lowness of their necks and the shortness of their sleeves, makes their fethers and brothers blush for them. A well-known actress attended a large party in this city, recently, and the next day she said to me: "I assure you that when I looked about me at that collection of the don torn, I was the only woman in the room rawed with any regard to decency. Yet I have no doubt that they rather scorned my virtue* in their hearts." I am often reminded sf a verse on* dancing girl in Gilberts Bab Ballads

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Their dre*** are lower th*a h«-r*, Andaomettrnwhalf.awhigh^ And their hair is hair thay Boy, And they u« lArtr ghMw«|too»

In away she'd blush to da Another deviceef the girl*t the period

ton helps the shoemaker amazingly. KMBBmiKQ CAK FARJHB. The managers of the horse oar railreads seem to find it a difficult matter to prevent the conductors in their employ &>«» appropriating Cum, "^.

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peculaUon. A!iy«or& of Ingenious device* have been used, but the ingenuity of the peculators has in every "S^eao* them at defiance. Tho plan of having boxes to put the feres in, and thus dispensing altogether with the employment

of conductors, Is probably tho only safe one, but it is a perfect nuisance to passengers. The much used bell punches area great improvement upon any other invention, but even they are not infallible, for men have manufactured and conductors make use of punches made of block tin, similar in appearance to the genuine steel ones, and like them, constructed so as to sound a bell. The real ones( however, are made to record the number of times they punch the trip ticket, which the tin ones do not. Now having deceived the passengers and "spotters" by using the false punch, they pocket as many feres as they can, without fear of immediate detection, and then ring the proper punch once for each faro they intend to hand in, thus deceiving th'e persons to whom they are responsible, as well as the •'spotters" on the cars. This skill fill system worked smoothly for a long time. But a few days isince, a manufacturer of fraudulent punches and a conductor who had used one were arrested, and held to bail, the former in the sum of

$2,500,

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the latter In 91,000, to appear for trial on a charge of attempting to defraud the Sixth avenue horse car line, upon which the bell punches are in use. Hie conductors are now compelled to wear tho genuine punch on a strong metal chain which hangs around their necks, thus keeping it in view of the passengers, and preventing the use of any but the proper one.

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It is said, however, that they manage to cheat even with the proper punch. It is done in the following manner: Tho punch is made witlran index, which records each ring of the bell. This recording is done by means of a dial containing a limited number of figures. The whole circuit of the dial being made, it commences again. New, if tho conductor has taken in sixty feres, bo records that number on the dial, and then when unobserved, rings the punch until the index has moved around the whole face of the dial, like the minute hand of a watch. He then rings it up to about fifty, and pocketing ten fares, hands in tho remainder. This trick, like ths first one, must necessitate some corresponding ticii

ingly ingenius arrangement of tho trip tickcts. what will the next dodge be? IMPRISONMENT FOR DKMT.

Many people doubtless hink that the practice of imprisonment for debt is a thing of tho past, and that together with many other semi-barbarous customs of the early part of the present century 1B no longer in vogue. But thoy are mistaken. Although debtors may no longer be imprisoned for their debts under that name, thoy are in reality often locked up for no other cause in the world. Of course New York is not the only placo in the country whore such things are donv but they are probably of more frequent occurrence hero than elsewhere. The system, although much practiced, is none the less unjust. This is the way it is done: A man has a .number of creditors. Wishing to get either money or some other sort of satisfaction from him, they trump up pretty much any charge against him. Such as that he is about to leave the placc, dispose of liis property, or in some other way escape the payment of his bills. Ajwarrant is sued for the debtor's arrest, and he is made to answer the charge, whether It be a felso one or not. Under the circumstances it is naturally hard to prove his innocence, and be is consequently compelled to pay a visit to the Ludlow Street Jail, an establishment for the reception of prisoners awaiting trial for almost any offense. Cases of a similar nature are far from being uncommon, and in fact the number of occupants of the Ludlow Street Jail is always large. Nearly all the prisoners there claim to be locked up for debt, as that is considered a much more respectable offenso than forgery, or other crimes.

THK SUNDAY QUESTION

Shall we observe the Sabbath according to the dictates of our conscience, or shall the laws compel us to follow a prescribed rule? is the question which is now agitating the clergy and laity of both this city and Brooklyn. There have been more places of amusements open on Sunday evenings In this city this season than ever before. Theaters, operas and concerts have been in fall blast upon these evenings, and attract large and attentive audiences. Naturally, the clergymen have become Indignant at what they choose to call this desecration of the Lord's day,and a number have denounced it from their pulpits. Mr. Talmage not only denounces Sunday amusements, but he pitches into theaters, generally, giving them no quarter at all. Many people, probably play-goers themselves, think that Mr. Talmage's attacks upon the stage are not because he honestly losksupon theaters as pest-houses, but because by abusing ana preaching against them, he creates a sensation, ana gets his name thoroughly advertised In the press.

In his last sermon on the stage, Mr. Talmage stated that he bad received threatening letters on account of his views. Some of these letters he said, threatened personal violence. From his pulpit he called upon them to do their woret, informing them that he went to Lafeyette avenue every Sunday night after the services, and added that they were too great cowards to attack him. This statement was received with "great applause," by the vast audience assembled in the Tabernacle, and perhaps by the fifty policemen who were scattered through the building to preserve order.

On Sunday last, the subject was well aired in the churches, and even Mr. Beecher, who had heretofore kept out of the discussion, took up a lance. What he said was very sensible and fair. While he does not approve of Sunday amusements he does not think that our law makers have aright to legislate upon tho subject. A petition bearing many well known names, among them those of two distlnguiBbca actore, allied the attention of the Board of Police Commissioners. to the law prohibiting "Theatrical and other entertainments of the stage ontfunday." This law has so long been" a dead-letter, that tho police authorities are doubtful about enforcing it,

Setting every other question aside, we peed Sunday as a day of rest, and there are many amonjr us who cannot remain quietly at homeif the theaters are open. What will be done remains to be seen. In the meantime the theaters will continue open on Sunday as well as other nights.

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A PAIB of The Mail's new chromos may be eeen at the Poatoffioe lobby. These pictures are not given to patrons who get the paper of carriers and acwiiboys. They can be had by taking the paper through the Pwtofflea, by calling for It at The Mail office, or by sending the paper to a distant friend.

Ladies, school teachers, clergymen, postmasters and others can earn a few dollars with great ease by canvassing In immediate neighborhoods for The Saturday Evening Mail. See prospectus in another column.