Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 5, Number 29, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 January 1875 — Page 4

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Decided Bargains

Hoberg, Root & Co.

In order to Close Out the balance of their Winter Stock are offering Home Kpeeial Inducements.

Silks, Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks, Furs. Woolens, Blankets, Hoods,

Nnbias, Gloves, Hose, Comforts, &c., &c.,

All at CLOSING OUT PRICES.

Hoberg, Root & Co.

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Opera House Corner.

Wanted.

ANTED-FARMERS AND TLAM liters to know that they can get the best and cheapest Horse Collars at MILLER & ARLETH'S collar tactory, Hoath Fourth street.

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nlng Mull is the most widely circulated newspaper In the State outside of Indianapolis.

OIJJTD—THAT WITH ONESTROKEOF the pen you can reach, with an advertisement in the Saturday Evening Mail, almosi every reading family In this city, as well as ho residents of the towns and country surrounding Terre Haute.

Estray.

7MTRAYKD-ON NEW YEAR'S DAY, A grey horse, nearly white, about 1.1 years old 7md 1(1 bands high. A suitable reward will be given for his return, or information of htm, bv A. 11. IiARTON, Terra Haute.

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OR HALE—EIGHTY-FIVE ACRES OF land, In Parke county, southwest corner Florida townsliip—65 acres under cultivation, Iwilirtice timber—half mile of railroad suit ion. School house on land. Enqnireof J. N. WALKER, near the land, or address him at. Atherton, Ind. nov.'l-.'m

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Terre Hauto Iron and Nail Works, TKRRH HAUTK, IND., Jan. 1.^ 1875. 1 eoiBiillanco with the statute concerning MaU-Uiacturing and Mining Corporations theibllowing statement, signed by the President a majority of the Director* of theTorre iJLauto Iron and Nail Work*, 1A

Amount of OsyJUtf, SjiS'naniX* Amount of ()»|)Ual pndd In, 5150,030,00. Amount of A«awf« tft cxretw of

Indebtedness^ $179,961.97. K. NIPPERT, IVosident, J.C. M«iRhXHR,')

J. W. WSM EST, Director*.

State or IndlAna, Vigo tVj.: The alxwe mentioned persons do solemnly swear that the above is a tin* and correct statement concerning the Terre Haute Iron and Nail Works.

Subscribed and sworn to Morn me, this IStli day of Jmuary, 1«Tft. tt. y,#ARSIIALL,8otW7 IMWiC-

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P. S. YVESTFALL, FDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TEH HE HAUTE,

JAN. 16, 1875.

SECOND EDITION.

TWO EDITION*S

Of this Paper are published, The FIRST EDITION, on Friday Evening has a large circulation In the surrounding town*, where it is sold by newsboys and agents. The SECOND EDITION, oil Saturday Evening, goes into the hands of nearly every reading person in the city, and tlie farm era of this immediate vicinity.

Everv Week's Issue is, in fact, TWO NEWSFAPERS, In which all Advertisement* appear for

ONE CHARGE.

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THE SURRENDER OF MR. JIEES. The political friends of our distinguished fellow-citizen have numerous ingenious explanations of his withdrawal from the Senatorial race, and his own letter is a most masterly pioco of strategy. But after all, it is thoroughly understood on all sides, that the long and tho short of the whole matter is, that Mr. Voorhees and his partizans, after carefully counting noses over and over again, found that tho noses they could count did not represent votes enough to securo him tho nomination. He verv naturally, and very wisely, preferred to surrender gracefully rather than go into caucus and be slaughtered.

On many accounts we are sorry that Mr. Voorhees could not have been the choice of his party for Senator. On the grounds of personal friendship we would have rejoiced to see him carry off this prize. Our local pride also would have been gratified. In whatever position Mr.Voorhcesisput, his talents are of such high order and versatility that he is sure to acquit himself in such a manner that all will be proud to claim him as a fellow townsman. Then, too, he is capable of doing tho country valu able service in the

Senate. Besides,with

the platlorin upon which his party carried the last election, he, as a representative of its professed principles, deserved the position of standard bearer. We now have the spectacle of a party waging and winning a. campaign upon a certain platform, and then, not only repudiating the author and champion of that platform, but doing this in favor of an opponent who openly refuses to stand upon it. At the time ot writing there seems to ba no reasonable doubt that McDonald will be nominated. (In order to get ready for our lirst issuo we are obliged to write before the final caucus.) But whether he is nominated or not, there is no question that a majority of the members preferred him to Mr. Voorhees, and so what we have to say has the same force irrespective of tho final results.

But Mr. Veerhees is slaughtered, or would havo been but for his timely surrender. As ho does not propose to whine about it, it certainly is not funeral enough of ours for us to snivel. There are one or fwo important points in connection with this defeat however which it may not be amiss to notice.

It indicates that tho exposure of fraud and swindling which havo been made of late, have created a public sentiment very dangerous to candidates who cannot come before tho people with clean hands. It i» true that Mr. Voorhees and his fellow congressmen, in voting themselves back pay, and taking and keeping it, only did what has boon frequently done before, and no row been made about it. But tho peoplo have come to tho conclusion that this thing must 1)0 stopped and tho "salary grab" was the club with whicli the opponents of Mr. V. Weat down their foe. His wannest porsonal friends in tho Legislature, men whoso first choice ho was, did not dare to voto for him because of the strong public sentiment against this pieco of Legislation. And, by tho way, there was a kind of poetic justieo in the manner in which those who had been foremost and loudest in their partizan cry against the salary grab as a Republican measure, were compelled to submit to the tornado which they had themselves raised and there was something very humiliating, too, iu the changed tone which moil and papers assumed when they found that it was their *own ox which was being gored. Without doubt Mr. Voorhees needed all the money ho got, and earned it too. No donbt he simply conformed, in this, to a custom of long standing. Very probably the fact that he was not going back to Congrats, together with the fact that he needed the money, led him to keep it and my nothing about it. But public watchfulness is aroused, and he is one of tho victims. Wo are sorry for tho victim, but heartily thankful for the improved tone of moral sentiment among the people. 4

This defeat, and the probable success of the candidate of opposite financial principles, reveal the weakness of the foundation upon which the demand for more currency rests. The fact is that ho bottom of this "popular demand" has en lirely dropped ont. We rather suspect that there never was much bottom to it, but that a few papers succeeded in keeping up such a hullabaloo as to ruako it seem that all the people were just shrieking for an unlimited issue ot greenbacks The talk about Mr. Voorhees being defeated by money rings and the like is the merest moonshine. If there had been any such public sentiment in favor of tho financial plank of tho Democratic platform, as some wonld have had us think, no party leaders, fresh from the people, would hajc.dared to go lxtek on

it, and if they did, there would have been a tearful howl over It. But now this great and wise policy, which Issupposed to have been the main issue in the election, is ignored—rather, repudiated, and hardly a squeak is heard. Where is this public sentiment that it finds no utterance, or such a very feeble utterance now? This policy may be right, or it may bo wrong, but the fact, is that there is not sufficient public sentiment in its favor for party leaders to pay any attention to it, and they are a pretty good thermometer ot tho sentiments of the people. If the peoplo demand a soft currency so urgently, how is it that their representatives cast tho apostle of this popular financial theory overboard, under tho leadership of a hard currency man In the days of the slavery agitation how would it havo done for a party after carrying tho election on an antislavery platform, to turn about and elect a pro-slavery Senator, or oven to have shown itself ready to do this? Or, when the tariff was the question at issue, how would it have done for a high tariff

Legislature, or one olected as such, to choose a free trade Senator or permit a high tariff man to bo driven from the poiit cal race track by a free trader? Politicians do not treat any strong public Bentiment in their party as tho present Democratic members of the Legislature have treated the sentiment concerning this financial policy for which, according to some papers the peoplo are ready to fight, bleed and dio. They simply knew that there was nothing to fear iu that direction. The contest for nomination for Senator settled that, if it was not perfectly apparent before. That gas bag is burst, and is so badly spoiled that it will not do to blow up again. Good bye to tho "great political question of the age."

THE Express devotes a third of a col umn in its last Sunday issue, to a defense of itself against an incidental allusion which we made last week to tho well known fact that "The Express either knows very little of the opinions and motives of tlioso in tho churches, or else takes particular pains to misrepresent them." And, with its characteris tic skill at never openiug its mouth on such matters without putting its foot into it, it makes a defence which, to any one with a very moderato degree of familiarity with tho opinions of those in the churches, is evidence, direct and conclusive, of the very fault asserted by The Mail. The defense in matter and manner, reminds us of tho bey who was charged by a classmate with having given a wrong answer to the question what is the capital of the United States He indignantly and triumphantly repelled the charge, saying, "I didn't answer it wrong either. 1 said Boston was the capital of the United States. Any fool knows that, so there now." The poor boy got laughed at for his combination of temper and ignorance, but he didn't know enough to seo himself as others saw him. Such boys are to be pitied, and yot, "Where ignorance is bliss," &c

THE Logansport, Crawfordsville and Southwestern railroad company, in recently issued orders, says: "The use of intoxicating liquor of any kind by an employe is not only pernicious, but detrimental to the interests of tho company, and it is tho intention of tho officers to employ only those who abstain from its use.

Wliatevor difference of opinion may exist in regard to tho recession of intoxication by legislative enactment, there can bo no littlo ddubt of tho ability of corporations to reduce it. The management of tho Lake Shore Railway have recently promulgated an order declaring that in tho future tho company will not rotain in their employ, men in tho habit of using intoxicating liquor as a beverage, and tho frequehtingof places where tho same is retailed will be considered prima facie evidence of its uso and discharge will follow. That this order is bearing its fruits in tho diminishing of drinking among the employes of that road, is evidenced by tho fact that proprietors of saloons in tho vicinity of the repair shops of the company are squealing terribly. Wo believe a similar regulation prevails on tho C., C. & I. C. railroad, and it should bo adopted Inall corporations employing men. A man would hesitate about frequenting doggeries if ho was in danger of losing a good situation thereby.

SOMR interesting figures about the New York hotels havo been obtained by a Tribune reporter, who has collected a variety of statistics from 15 of tho 108 hotels of that city. Tho amount of supplies consumed at tho 15 hotels is quito enormous, asthesospecimen figures illustrate —54,000-pounds of fresh meat per week, including 35,000 of beef 600,000 pounds of fish a year, 15,000,000 oysters, 6,000 eggs, 10,000 barrels of fiour, 150,000 pounds of coffee, 35,000 pounds of tea, and nearly 700,000 pounds of sugar a million and a half quarts of miik, and 170.00Q ot cream 450 pounds of butter, 12,000 tons of ice, and 60,000,000 cubic feet of gas,

A YOCNO Japanese, while in the United States, expressed miiq^ surprise at seeing cranberries eaten at the table, and said that in tint mountains of Japan they grow very large and beautiful, but are never cooked. Some old man occasionally goes up tho mountain and picks a long basket full ot Uiem, which he brings on his shoulders down to the town. Here the boys gather about him and for a small coin purchase tho right to crowd their pockets with them. And what use do you think they inako of this otherwise useless fruit? Tho boys blow the glowing berries through rattan tubes, as our boys blow beans through tin ones. That's what cranberries are used for in Japan, where they growin great perfection.

FERRIC HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

FtJKii ig very dear in all the California valleys. Aw our fruits exoept the peach grow in the Black bills.

FLORIDA is tilling up with winter visiters from the north.

TEH years hence the Sandwich Islands will bo a popular resort.

THE rise in Plymouth pews shows what advertising will do.

MANY life assurance companies in England are a rotten state.

Ex-Gov. BKAMLRTTK, at the head of the Louisville Lottery died euddenly last Tuesday night.

FKANK MOULTON has "stepped down and out" of the great warehousing business of Woodruff, Robinson A Co. The dissolution took place on the first of January. Mr. Moulton has been with the firm many years as junior partner.

LAURA REAM, in a letter published in the Cincinnati Commercial of Wednesday morning, fixes up the following slate: Hon. Wm. S. Holman, Democratic Governor in 1877 Hon D. W. Voorhees, Democratic successor to^Senator Morton His Excellency, Thos. A. Hendricks, President, successor to U. S. Grant. ______ T^ J/

ALL who handle money occasionally get hold of counterfeit bills, for the Note Printing Bureau at Washington makes the startling admission that seven out of the nine denominations of the national bank notes have been counterfeited. Nor is this the worst yet. It is further asserted that tho makers of spurious notes are' getting more expert every year. _____________

THE example sot by the Republicans in electing a woman to the office of State Librarian, has not been followed by the presont Legislature. Tho Democrats in caucus, the other night, told tho several excellent women who asked for the position, to "stand down in the hall," and the position was given to a ward politician who could "work lor the party!" :'rfks

GREAT alarm exists among the peoplo of the mining towns in Pennsylvania, owing to the turbulent disposition ef the miners now on a strike. More than twenty thousand men are penniless and idle, with starvation staring them in the face. At a miners' meeting on Thursday of last week, a resolution was passed calling on the men to arm and help themselves to bread.

IN the Democratic caucus held Thursday evening, Hon. Joseph E. McDonald was nominated for U. S. Senator. The vote stood 42 for McDonald, 33 for Holman and 1 for Williams,. Two Democrats were absent but pledged themselves to abide by the caucus—so on next Tuesday Mr. McDonald will undoubtedly bo elected to succeed Senator Pratt.

THE suspensions we now hear of,"s'4ys an exchange, are mainly the inevitable and long foreseen results of tho "extensions" which saved a number of shaky firms from immediate overthrow in the tornado of last year tho "settling up," which thoy were able to postpone, but not to avert. Now that these last relics of last year's panic are down the settling up is complete, and things being at their worst, will now begin to mend.

IT i^ a Btartling fact that ono pair of rats, with their progeny, will produce in three years no less number than 646,808. A doo rat will have from six to eight nests of young rats each year for four years together, and from 12 to 23 at a litter, and tho young d»es will breed at three months old and there are more females than males, at an average of about ten to six. If they ran about the streets like cats and dogs tho public would bo terrified, but as they hido and work in tho dark, men seldom seo or think of them.

THERE is again something new in photography, and something that may bo found of great use in the world. An English amateur claims to have discovered a method of fixing tho image of an object on a sensitized plate not more than half an inch in diameter, an impression from which can bo afterward enlarged to the necessary size. Tho plate is fixed into an ordinajy locket or keepsake hanging from a watch chain, and can bo suddenly exposed, by a touch of the finger, on entering a room, and an image taken of a picture er of a person without anyone besides tho operator being aware of it.

RUSSIAN HOUSES IN WINTER. The windows are invariably double, and tho spaco between the sashes invariably covered with a layer of fine sand, designed to absorb moisture and prevent the frost from silvering the panes. Twisted horns of paper containing salt are set in jt, and sometimes the sand is concealed by a bed of moss. There are no outside shutters or blinds, for they would be useless, since the windows remain closed all winter, being carefully filled in around the edges with a kind of cement. Heavy curtains of rich materials still further deaden the effect of tho cold upon the glass, a substance much more permeable than is generally believed. Open fire-places are rare: when they ao exist they arc used only in spring and autumn.

A QUEER LOOK ABOUT THE EYE. [The Nation.] Wo have never yet meta man of the present day who advocated nnlimited issues of paper money, WHO had not a queer look about bis eye. It is undoubtedly a sign in our time of some cerebral disturbance, however slight.

Josh Billings says: "Everbody seems to konsider himself a kind ov moral half bushel, to mezzure the world's frailty* in."

SHOW PEOPLE.

John E. Owens has been sick in Texas. The can-can in its worst phase is seen in St. Louis.

Manager W. H. Leake will shortly play Iago in this city. Tony Pastor has made female minstrels a feature at his New York Opera House.

Geo. Bailey's Circus was in Lima, Pern at latest advices, but as there is a revolution in the interior, and they area little afraid of the Peruvian bark—of musketry— they didn't expect to stay long.

Dan Rico isn't dead yet. He has found a backer, and is fitting up a first-class circus in Girard, Pa., which will start out in the spring as Dan Rice's Great Show. Dan's undying pluck is worthy all admiration.

Says tire Indianapolis Herald: She calls'herseli Mrs. Jas. A. Oates, notwith standing her marriage to Tracy W. Titus. Now, if we were in Tracy's place, we'd urge her to leave off the James A., and still held the Oates. How would Mrs. Titus Oates do?

The tag of the play at MoVicker's is, I shall see you again and know you. Looking ruefully round at the few people in the house last night, Mr. McVickor added, to tho audience: "And it would not take long to get well acquainted with all of you.—[Chicago Tribune.

Tho one place of amusomeui in iew York doing a heavy business is Wallack's. Dion Boucioault's "Shaugbran" is nightly packing the house, and at 8 o'clock every evening the placard is hung out, "No more money taken." With a good deal of truth it could be suspended at other places (and for the unpleasant reason that it wasn't offered).

To prevent the annoyance of persons returning to the theater after the performance has begun, the manager of the Brussels Theatre de la Monnaio has now connected the house with the neighboring cafes by means of an electric wire, which rings a bell three minutes before the performance beuins. It is the most convenient thing imaginable when you want to go out to "seo a man" between acts.

An observing critic remarks in the Chicago Tribune that "Tho great drawback to papering a theater is this: a man who has onco tasted of free admission will never again pay his way to tho theater into which ho was admitted gratuitously. It is tho old story of the tiger and human blood. Hence, for every dead-head the number of paying play-goers is diminished permanently byone."

The leal riame of Sam Sharply, who died of cancer of the stomach, at Providence, R. I., on the 1st inst., was Samuel Sharpe, and be was born in Philadelphia, Juno 13, 1831. He embraced tho minstrel profession at the age of 16 years, and was for nearly 25 years on tho road with traveling companies. As a performer he was one of the merriest men in the minstrel business, possessing a rich fund of original wit.

An acrobatic feat, which it is believod has hitherto never been accomplished in the presenco of an audience, was successfully performed at Niblo's Garden, on Wednesday evening, December 30th, by tho Garnella Brothers. Little Dick, standing upon the shoulders of Robert, leaped in tho air, made two coniplote revolutions, and alighted upon his feet upon Robert's shoulders in tho position he originally occupied, thus accomplishing tho very difficult feat ot turning a double somersault from tho shoulders.

A reporter of ono of the Binaller journals of Paris asked tho managor of a theater to give him two seats for a certain performance. Tho manager refused and the journalist said to him, "Your refusal will cost you 40,000 francs, ($8,000.)" For six months after the paper to which the reporter was attached praised the theater in this wise: "Monsieur X. is a magnificent director. Ho has a good company, and Ills entertainments are excellent. His management is intelligent. He knows what tho peoplo of Paris want. What a pity it is that the staircases of tho theater are of wood. If afire should break out, tho audienco would have little chance to escape." The result of this was that the manager was forced to build an iron staircase which cost him $10,000.

A CLEAR CASE OF NECESSITY. Tbey had a little affair or pistols at Jefferson, Nevada, a week ago Sunday night, and burled a man named McDonald next day. McDonald and a man known as "tfexas were engaged in the improving Nevada pastime ol poker, and Texas won tho pot fairly and squarely. McDonald did not like the idea of losing the money, and slipped two cards into the pack, claiming a "foul." Texas would not allow the foul, and McDonald proceeded to choke him. Texas Mid he was not prepared to fight, and McDonald told him to go and "heel himself." Texas went on and heeled himself with a navy revolver, and eame back. McDonald fired two shots then before Texas got ready, but missed, and then the firing became lively, and those not directlv interested got behind the bar or out'in tho street. Finally McDonald got a bullet in the head and Ml, and Texas stepped up to blm and shot him twice again. When they finally picked McDonald up, Texas examined the dead man critically, and saidI: "Boys, I bated to do this, but I bad to! So it is they still enjoy themselves, and while the winter evenings aw^av with playful pastimes and feats of skill and cheerful griefs. —==5^===

ASTONISHING. [Ind. News.1

Tt's truty astonishing bow the papers, while they persist in charging a man a dollar an inch for advertising, when living, cheerfully give up a whole column of space for nothing when his obituary comes along.

MORTON'S OPPORTUNITY. rV.T.Bos.) Oliver P. Morton is one of the very ablest men in the Republican party. He is ambitious, and has long aspired to b*' President. His fitness for that nlglx office will be judged mainly by the course he takes in the present juncture of public affairs. If he should at once dissever himself from the advocates of tyranny, and characterize in fitting terms tho policy of Grant and SherHan In Louisiana, he will hold a warm place in the regards of a free people. That is Mortoit's opportunity.

The City and Vicinity.

FRANKLIN LOWE, one of the men arrested for tto murder ofTrueblood, was set at liberty en Wednesday, he having shown that he was in tho city at the time the deed was done.

SHERIFF CARRICO went down to JeVfersonvillo last night, taking Chester Sherburne and Hugh Kinmont, sentenced for a term of three years each, for knocking doiVn and robbing a man named Ncal.

THE old Fourth street market house had tho top of its venerable bead burned' off yesterday morning, soon after twelve o'clock, and now, as the spring roses bloom and early vegetables come tip, will tho question again be agitated "Shall wo have a new market house?"

THERE is little regret among the neighbors at the death of Leonard Trueblood. He was a bad man. doing much to corrupt the neighborhood, and especially the young men and boys of that vicinity. On the night of his tragic death ho had brought out from the city a wagon load of abandoned women to take part in a low dance.

BILL' RUDIFER is out of tho penitentiary again. Yesterday morning when tho guard went to his coll, the door was unfastened, the ball and ohain Rudifer had worn sinoe his first escape wore lying on the floor, and the occupant was "not at home." A vigorous search is being made, but up to last advices he had not been found.

THE PRUSSIAN BANIV—Other duties deprived us of tho pleasure of hearing the Prussian Band at th« Opera House last night, except the latter portion or tho concluding piece on tho programme, but in this wo reoognlzed harmony, execution, taste and skill of the highest degree. Tho morning papers speak in unmeasured terms of tho performance, and all who were there speak in the highest praiso. Ono gentleman said it surpassed the Theodore Thomas Orchestra. Tho wonderful performance ol Professor Weiffenbuch upon sixteon drums is said to bo well worth tho priet» of admission. Tho Band plaj's again at the Opera llouso to-night, and without hesitation wo commend it to our musiu loving peoplo.

INTERMENTS.—Tho following is a list of intormonts in,the. city cometory sipee last report:

Jan.8—Infant of II. C. Mills, age 3 weeks congestion of the brain. Jan. 8—Infant of L. F. Bailey, ago I months lung fever.

Jan. 10— Mrs. C. Praikscatls, age 20 years consumption. Jan. It)—Frederio Pennell, ago 10 years hurt on the I.&St. L. railroad.

Jan. 10—Andreas Konneke, age 61 years: heart disease. Jan. 10—HarrySibloy, age35 years consumption.

Jan. 10—Infant of Mrs. S. E. Banlshury premature birth. Jan. 11—Joseph Strout, ago 82 years: old age. 'i

Jan. l'2r-Fredcrlck Ohm, ago 56 yeju|, tUinhfeWiJ. 'jL

RULES FOR SKATING. The river, tho past week has furnished some of the finest ico for skating that has been known for several years, and hundreds of men, boys, girls and young ladies have daily enjoyed tho exhilarating sport. For tho benefit of now beginners, wo print below somo directions 1. Nevor attempt to skate In two directions at once. This feat has often been attempted by new beginners, but never successfully. It always ends in sorrow. 2. Eat a few apples lor refreshment «»ako while skatinir.and be sure to throw the cores on tho ice, for fast skaters to break their shins over. Fast skaters are your natural enemies, and should not bo allowed to enjoy themselves peaceably. 3. Sit down occasionally, no matter where—right in tho way o! the rest tiio party, if you want to. There is law to prevent a now beginner from sit!.ofno

ting down whenever he naa an inclination to do so. 4. When you meet a particularly handsome woman, try t«» skato on both sides her at once. This is very pretty and sure to croate a sensation. 5. Hkato ovef ail the small

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Knock 'em down. It makes great fun. —and they like it. 6. If you skato into a hole in the iee take it coolly. Think h»w you would feel if tho water was boiling hot. 7. If your skates are too slippery buy anew pair. Keep buying now pairs till you find a pair that are not slippery. 8. In sitting down, do it gradually. Dont be too sudden you may break the

*°0* When you fall headlong, examine the'straps of your skates very carefully before you get up. This will make everybody think you fell lx-cause yeur skate was loose. Beginners always do. you know. 10. Wear a heavy overcoat or cloak till you get thoroughly warmed an, an»l then throw it off and lot the wind ooel you. This will insure you a fine cold

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that will last you as long as you lite. 11. Ladies, in passing an air hole, should scream prettily and give tho arm of Chariot Augustas a frantio squeeze. It makes liim feel his oats in a protections I way. If your skating partner is eligible, and and your foot i* pretty, don't hesitate in asking him to adjust your sknte straps every ten minutes. Ju will rather like it. y12. After you get so you can skate UK erably well, skate yourself sick immediately. Don't be reasonable about it skate throe or four hours—ekate frantieally—skate till

can't stand up. lo

thw every day, and it will be sure to make ycrn sick at last and then you may die, and that will bo an excellent, thing it will be such an example to thf* rest of the voung jvopl"-