Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 5, Number 34, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 February 1875 — Page 4

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BL.M li UKHH weAI.X

Black Cashmeres, Black 'Rril i^ tines, Black Alpacas,

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Silks!!

REDUCED PRICES. Our Bi«rli tirM «mi» Mlk* at 1.00, 1.25,1.50, 1A. ri.» are tl»« best valae evoi* offered In this oltv.

Black ('AnlMcrc* «»l Drap E'elw 90c, IM, *l-oa«ud upwards. Tbusegoods are tbeoeleontfU'd "IIoru«8e"make,known for their Rood color.

Bliiek Brill la* tl»«. Them goods arc aoMurpawMxi f«»r thel. h-mitiiul instrw which msW there «-arly as rich looking as a fine 811k. Prioes reduced to 6ttc OOo, «5c, 75c, 90c, and 51.00.

Mack Alpunw. Our ""Horse Bhot' brand, writ-known lor its Durability and good Col«ev, stands .am.sunmsMed. New Pri o«t: 28c, Sfcc, 40c, -joc, 4»c, 73C.

Look to your interest and purchase these •goeds. Von wiH slave moiu'y by doing no.

BOOT & CO..

OPERA HOUSE.

We have Jus! opened anew lot of Bleached*nl ItrowD Muslins, KIteetlngs and Pillov Casings lit very low price*. As these gfiffvdsare advancing, pnrtie.s In want wiildo ym 11 lo purrhs«if now while prices are sw low.

Wanted.

A PKK

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PEX.

WEEK KMII^OYMENT FOR

3)0U n*nr. and women la every city and town. A hl ress W A HAS 11 N K1 /li O., Pfxti-m'''-I'JWl.Terie Haute, Ind. 113-itt

WANTED—TWO

HARNESS MAKERS

am! three CollarSfitchers,at MILLEK A Alli-hU'WH, south Fourth street, Terre liiiut«e.,l'nd. ICinclncaii Cwmrneiclnl copy one week ami send bill to this offlce.l

P«*r Day at homo. Term

iJU*" INE. Address KTINSON Co., Portland, Maine. Jan23-ly A*NTEI—ALLTO KNOW THAT THE ^ATITKIMV EVKNIXU MAII, has a laiuST circulation than any newspaper published

ItuState.ouUUde

Indianapolis. Also

tbaii' is earenilly and thoroughly read in tho tonnes of M» patrons, and that it Is the very test advertising medium in Western India-tin.

For Sale.

l^oxi HALE.—FOUR F1RST-CLASS I'ul' per Soda Fountains and one first-class Generator. Inquire at or addressSHELLEDY & COX, 9th &nd Main htreetTerre Ilaute, lint. feb6-lt

HTSALB-SMALL OFFICE SAFE—AT a bargain. Enquire at M. M. JOAB*8 li»w3ffloe. J23-tf

HALE—CHEAP—A FULL SET OF Silver Instraiaents—all nearly new. A ire i-hunce to partios wishing to organize a ud, as they wall be Bold cheap. For par tl ulnrs call on «r address M. W. STACK, JS (change Hotel, near Union Depot, or C. WA.I •!•'. i»t V. 1. Dt khout's Trunk Faco*y Wo. 10J Nai«i street. Jan30-tf ,V)ll hALl'.-A JiOUL'IING CHEST, FuK

Flouring Mill, containing two reels, 1(. din meter, wltli feetlong hy SO Inches in geasiMg und clotfis all complete and all new^niljt un tile most Improved plan lor couir sell CiUl'tiUd see It, iunion. Ind.

*VbuiJt on Uie mom improveu pian 101 itr rv work «w»4e easilyxemovod will, li cheap lor eu«h, or good/a per on time, l^tud see It, or address McClure & Co.,

For Rent.

•y )t RENT—STiUEROOM,No. 142 A IN stX'.-t !, Apply at Bee Hive,

Lost.

LOST-ONKn«li-h

TIU'HSDAY A SMALL white

f»:iiuV" Bull Terrier.with care eioppeti. A llit-ml reward will beglven for its rfturn f" M. PORTER, at A. U. Austin A o's.

Found.

rtOlTNli-niA/r WITH ONEOTHOKEOF Mh' |K*n\j ou cAn reach, with an advertisement in theHaturday Evening Mail, almost every rending family In this city, a# well a* the ivsldents of the towns and country «ur-

,„" •. -r ,..... Hnute.

TnO i—THAT THE SATURDAY ul Mail I* the most widely circulated sew JHT In tke State ootsldo of Indianapolis.

F,^1—5'iaf"i-«s

)»t 11L4 I)Ii-A FARM WELL 1M PK« In Clav county for rcadclen* ii this elt-„ Cull at tea Main street. D. A l.ldt-.'t OHM AN

Society Meetings.

O. U. A. yit— i'Yauliin Council, No. 10. Order of rstfwl American M-ehnnlo •nwvts every !t«»ndnv evening In Ameri-

Meehantc* Half, **rtliwe,t comer •Klfih and MtU* stn^tN at o'clock. All FMVUBVTRHAIUL **«lting HH'IIIIKTS are conllally ii vltt^l tonuuandottr n^H«tin»f.

T. K. KNOX, C.

I K. HTOi K. n. H. InlvH-Sm

gO^KTHIKCi OF IKTERlvsT.

Farli«4)uiving PiemUut ilaeliine# of an klad 4*»iiug e*»» Hive »bn«*y by having Ueir old imx-hlw* »»nd«» |»w«l»» newwifj -'t«t MttteME|x nsc. S. C.

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and J***.*-: i»k ha v.- manctttly located at lt»7 Mi*ta«ti« ei, «»w Tutt's Boot and Kho* Ston\ OptTB House, for the iiuriHwc at lVm(rln« awl AdJu«tlBgaH kuuU «fS4 wiuii -auchine*. All persons Ini4»nst.^ in th. enterprise would well give It iImsU pntroniww, a»«l net tmrt their machines l««he hands of utmngent. n-pn--•wiling tlwwowelvcs lo 1k* Hewing MMnliM' Rersal n^rs olid AU u#ter*. fhy ulso krep oil kand a «o»1 ownutofshc i»*tt quality of »«wll"« teadioa Much liven, and the flttWit quality of PureHuwm OU.#rhich will b*»W otea a« can ne iti ihe market.

Trv tliem, n* U»ev an' expertMWM jwlimen" in tln-lr line of buslnesm. Auw ORK WAnwAKTrn.

EMOVAL.

THE

Saving Fund

MOTION STORE""

RiWovcil tellMwft Mmii "!«u opp^rfteClUr ——'1 Wlionvnta be (Mod a IttU of

Notions & Fanc^ Goods,

JSutterlak MMI FnUrrai.

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rH EMAIL

A PAPER FOR HIE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TKKRE HAUTE, FEB. 20, 1875.

SECOND EDITION,

TWO EDJT10HS

Uf ihu-paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Friday Eveelng has a large circulation In the surroua^lng towns, where It 1B sold by newaboyt and agents. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Evening, goes Into the hands of nearly every reading person in the city, and th» farm ere of this Immediate Vicinity.

Every Week's Issue la, in fact, "'fTWO NEWSPAPERS, In which all Advertisements appear for

ONE CHAROV

IN some sections wages have got down to ante-war figures.

THE Beecher trial posts the New York papers about $3,000 a day.

UP in slow going Vermont two j'ears imprisonment must precede an execu tion. .: ^^BS^^!S=SIS

THERE is one crop with which the grasshoppers can not interfere—that's the ice crop.

IT is said that California has more than a hundred slumbering volcanoes ready to commence operations.

WITHIN a radius of a few miles around Wheaton, 111., 2,000 eows are kept for clieeserinaking purposes,

IT is now certain that thero will be an executive session of the Senate, and probably an extra session of both houses of Congress.

YEARS hence the "o.dest inhabitant" will refer to this as a remarkable winter, on account of the long period of uniformly c«»ld weather,

NEW YORK, it is said, is becoming a city of the very rich and the very poor, The middle class find existence one continual struggle in that city.

THE Supreme Court of Michigan has decided that the consent of the parties is a.1 that is requisite to make a marriage valid, and that no ceremony is necessa ry. the same doctrine has already been laid down in several States.

THE Secretary of War has directed the Adjutant-General to send telegrams to the commanding Generals in the departments of Dakota, the Platte and Missouri, instructing them to carry out the directions of the recent general order providing for furnishing supplies to sutl'erers by the grasshopper ravages with the utmost dispatch. The Quarter master-General and the CommissaryGeneral are t» telegraph officers of jtheir departments to the same effect.

IN an article on Married Life, suggested by certain remarks made the oi her day by Judge Donohue, of New York, in denying the preliminary application of a wife to enable her hasband to bring a suit for divorce on the ground of the complaint being insufficient, the Times argues that the chief cause of being brought into court, as is nowsocommon is founfl in the moral error of forgetting what the marriage covenant is. As Judge Donohue reminded tho sensitive Mrs. Thompson, people take in marriage "certain duties on themselves, and undertake to bear the infirmities of hu manity which each possesses." Whether "for better or for worse, for richer or poorer," is expressly covenanted or not, the conditions are distinctly understood and married people are as obviously bound to accommodate their tastes and tempers to each other as they are to respect the inviolability of their neighbor's property. They have no right to subject their children, if they have any, to the demorolialng influences of a contentious home, or te the shame inseperable from a broken marriago bond. They have just as little right to weaken the tie which holds society together by treating the inarriago vow as a thing terminable at the caprice of the vindictive impulse of either of the parties to it. There has been a groat deal too much twaddlo talked and published about the sentimental side of this question.

Tnic great scandal has beoomo a huge elephant. A month having been consumed in the examination of the two first witnesses, It is safb to presume the Brooklyn Times says, that a month or six weeks, perbqp« even two months more, will be consumed in the examination of the numerous other witnesses that are sure to be called by both iddes. The trial thus for has developed scarcely anything new to the public. There hi some little novelty involved in the way the old story is retold under the pressing fire of a sesrobing cross examination, hut beyond that the testimony of the leading statement-makers is the old tale which tbey have already dished np for the puWJc In Vkifons forma. It* papers that are trying in vain to compete with the graat New York daffies in publishing the testimony, and ttaat mm reporting the esse for a eoulltntncy that hw aLtendy been moew smWted by it, have a heavy task on hand, and on* that If Mined as day after day of lbs prolonged sxaminattnn waxes and wanes, to grow heavier. Hot one man in a hundred has the time and pattern* to follow the trial In all Us details. What the local puhtle want is an intelligent synopsis of tin trial as it progresses, and a clear presentation of the talient points of the cross examination, and of anything really new olid ted

rol!nw !v Mm* from tho witness

SHSII

THBRK is ncfthlng so destructive «»f happiness, dignity, repose, sweetness, and all that is most precious in home11 fo aa hrnry, says a writer, and that it is one is illustrated in the everyday life of bnndreds and hnndredsof homes. There are families who never seem to know what domestic or social enjoyment is, because either every member is hurried and busied with work or the mistress of the hou*e is, and so (ails to impart an atmosphere of grace and quiet aud gentleness and the comfort which ci»mes from having "time" to think up ways of enjoyment and make preparations for the outgoing and incoming.

Men are often responsible for the multitude of cares with which the wife and mother finds herself environed, and which leave her neither time nor strength for anything beyond the bard, ordinary routine of daily life. They were probably born poor, they have been aocustomed to see women act as drudges all their lives, and, being destitute of culture, have no idea of occupation beyond the actual washing of dishes, peeling potatoes, sweeping and dusting, and if by ohanoe these are done for them there is left, they honestly believe (having imagination,) nothing for them to do. Now, a house is different from a machine-shop. It requires that some one in it should have leisure for emergencies, else it is no home'at all. Some one there must be who can All up the gaps, attend to members of the family in sickness, keep the best room in hospitable order, and make the dainty dishes which taste so good because delicate bands have prepared them and loving eyes watched their gradual progress towards perfection. The exquisite cleanliness and refinement which are ihe charm of a cultivated borne are born of the reposeful life and active, not idle leisure of the intelligent woman who presides there always. In such a home, where leisure is not the excuse for idleness nor occupation the plea for neglect, is found the purest happiness in the world, a foretaste of Para dise. It is a wretched* habit to acquire, that of being in a hurry, for it is a habit as much as anything else. After all, we can only accomplish a given amount in a given time, and coolness will enable us to do it easier and better than anything else. It is the sign of a small capacity to be always in a hurry, and the over-worked women should remember that blame instead of praise attaches to those who fail, no matter how hard they strive, while to those who preserve their serenity, their gracious ways, their power of making home happy, is accorded the worshipping love of family and friends, though they may have given less of their time and strength to the making of doughnuts and the baking ef pies. Doing what we can and doing it well is better than to try to do too much and foil of the most important result by being always in a hurry. .Y:

Jer,

rEmV) HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

HOUSE FURNISHING. The New York Times draws a sensible picture of the time when our houses shall be furnished as they should be: "Heavy rugs will partly cover tho polished floors. Paper of some neutral tint, free from glaring figures, will stretch from the richly colored base at the bottom to the gay border at the top. The picture rod will not be of. the eternal gilt that wearies us now. It will be painted some decided color that will harmonize with the prevailing shade of the whole room. Before tho windows and before tho doors which open outward, curtains, heavy in texture and subduod in tone, edged with strong lace, will hang from wooden rings which move freely on a slender woeden rod fastened to tho sheathing. Rings and rod will be of the hue of the picture rod above. The single curtain before each opening will be looped to one side low bookcases, sot over three feet high, of dark wood relieved by a few chiseled designs picked but in color will line the wall. No glass doors will disfigure them. One general pattern, varied in each piece, will stamp the furniture. Last and greatest, an open wood fire, either in a fireplace or in ono of the Franklin stoves which still lurk in the garrots of old country houses, will cast its cheery light upon everything. The close stove, the grate, tho register, the radiator will be tabqoed. The blaze of wood burning across brazen andirons is something so beautiful that no artist has ever succeeded in painting it. The first of all hints on household taste should bo: Have an open wood fire in the room in which you mean to live."

«JIERO- WORSHIP.

In allusion to the confession of a prominent witness during the Beecher trial in a letter put In evidence, that he was "sick of great men—public mpn—famous men"—the Tribune asks:

Is hero-worship then only the weak nessof callow youth and of trusting inexperience? Ia there nothing then religions, in the etymological sense of the word, in hero-worship?

uainted with the very neck of Aloxanwith the sensualities of pessr, with Cicero's trimming and the venality of Marlborough, with Washington's hot temper, the vanity of Adams and the (bibles of Hamilton). As biography is written now Iters ate no secrets after death and burial, while in these days of gossip obscurity is positively delicious. Happy be who has done nothing to mak" himself fomooa. Happy she, too, Ibr that matter.

Tm State Senators, by a vote of 26 to 93 have told Baxter to stay with them, and tliat BUI will not pass—out.

WHA7*8IN THE MAIL* Readers of this paper will bear ua but in the assertion that we seldom "blow our own bugle," but we feel like calling attention to the fact that each week we print more than thirty columns of choice reading matter—as mnch as you will find in an ordinary sized volume, cost* ing one dollar or more. The Mail is in no sense a rehash of the daily papers, is printed in opposition to none, does not come in collision with any—in short occupies afield of its own making. For Instance, in this issue there is—outside from the usual editorial and local mat-ter-ra pretty poem by our most soeeptable contributor, Hetty A. Morrison, of In dianapolls, Town Talk—who next week completes his third year without miss ing an issue—talks of "Cheeky Girls," Husks and Nubbins, always graceful and deep In thought, discusses "The Church and Dancing," our New York correspondent sends some good Gotham Gossip then there are three interesting stories, columns of pointed items, se, lected poetry, and a great deal of the best selected miscellany. Even the ad vertlsements are made to look Interesting as possible, and are instructive, And yet this is only an ordinary issuehardly up to the average.

THERE are iu the State Legislature seventy employes drawing pay at five dollars a day for work that could easily be done by thirty men, is the testimony of.the correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer. And yet this is the great "reform" legislature.

NEXT Monday will be the anniversary of the birth of the man who "could not tell a lie." Such men, however, are so common nowadays, that little or no no tice is taken of Washington's birthday

OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

THE TEDIOUS TRIAL—PATIENCE, NOT BEECHER, AT THE BAR—ICE AND JUST ICE—ROMANTIC NEWSPAPER FICTIONS —THE ASTOR HOUSE—THE HOTEL

BUSINESS IN NEW YORK—OLD TIMES, HARD TIMES, AND THE GOOD TIME COMING. .... Correspondence of The Mail.l /,A'"

NEW YORK, Feb. 10,1875.

Another tedious stage of this most tedious of trials is past, and Tilton is at length off the stand. The minutiao of collateral evidence reminds one of the cross-examination of Mr. Boffin's dust heaps by Mr. Wegg or of the patient sitting of ash-barrels for the little lo sings and leavings that may chance to be found in them. Very necessary gro ping, no doubt, where every chance of a connecting link or of a tell-tale mote must be jealously searched out. But after it is all over, a hundred to one the whole product may as well be swept back into the dust heap. Very few of these links prove to have any connecting faculty, and the proportion of motes iu a dust heap that have anything to tell is not likely to be worth minding. The wonder mongering 'city' writer makes great ado over the mysterious developments which the superhuman legal go nias of his favorite counsel is wring ing out of these tortured nothings but that is only the wonder-monger's trade

The balance of the plaintiff's testimony is not likely to be very tedious, and alter that will come the tuird "woe"—ii not the opening lor the uuiense, at least the numerous witnesses who know noth ing really bearing on the merits of the case, but who will be examined to the exhaustion of all human endurance ou the saine collateral trifles that have con sumed three-fourths of the time already The only prospect of much interest fur ther, before we come to the magnificent speeches that are certaiu to be inaae to tne jury from both sides, is in the examination of Mn Beeecher. There will be notnlng slow or dull in that affair on either side, probably. I don't mean however, that Mr. Carpenter, and Mrs. Moulton will not be very interesting witnesses, or at least the latter.

THE UNPRECEDENTED COLD

(unprecedented in forty years) which blocked the wheels of justice aud the ferry-boats for a whole day, still con tin ues. It was in 1835, tho winter of the great fire, that the North River was last passable for pedestrians, aud after just forty years tue same phenomenon has been again presented. The East River, only about ono sixth as wide has been several times bridged with ice during that period—the last time, seven or eight years ago, I believe—but never repeatedly within the same winter, until this. It is not purely the cold that does it. Tho ice comes mainly from the North River, and does its worst when forced down into the harbor by a mighty nor'wester which sends it around the Bat tery,- recoiling from the islands oppo site, with an impetus sufficient to reach the channel of tue flood tide into the East River. Once in that narrow strait, the ioe is jammed hard and Oust, and a number o( these swift tides may be required, after the wind-pressure Is relieved, to loosen out the pack. Somebody said tbe delay of the trial on Friday was due to "V-

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Do we find

miliarity breeding contempt at last, discovering at last wbat was known to the soieC d* thumb** of odr idol from the first? In our first davs how we reverenced a man who bad written a book, saying ovsr and over, bow great and good, or at any fate, how great he must be I Sinoe then, maybe, we have written books ourselves, and know how little is implied by that distinction. Aa our reading, specially of biography, grows more general, we become ao-

NOTHING BUT JU8T-ICK,

Which was more than ooald be sata of some other days. 1 have commented perhaps enough on the alternative stupidity and mendacity of our newspaper descriptions of the trial. And yet it is provocative to repetition, to see tba paper? all over the oouniry swallow the labricated trash of the HenUd or the (Mcsgo Tribune correspondence to say nothing of tho minor nonsense of other papers. Do tbey care as little as the writers for those papers do for veracity or even good name? or don't they really know that the descriptions they copy are got up with just as little reference to ftct as the travels of ales Vergoe in the centre of the earth Take, for instance, the Chicago correspondent's description of tbe effect of niton's appearance on tbe stand, upon Mr. Beecher. "tttupefled" "whiter than be will be whan he ia dead," "expression of horror," "apparition of his accuser," "a stupendous surprise," "petrified him" "shock unnerved him," "relentless orbs blistering his heart and so on mid on, this writer piles up the agony, in terms which any judicious editor would instinctively know were coined out of mere imagination and a morbid ono at that. But every one who was there knows that there wss not a fibre of fact even to hang one of these cheap story-paper phrases on. I saw Mr. Til-

ton take tbe totand, and before be bad looked tnwsrd Mr. Beecher or anybody else except the officer who tendered him the book and the clerk who oommenoed the oath, the truly dramatic element of the scene wss introduced by Mr. Evarts commanding silence, and exclaiming,

I object to tbe witness!"—and Mr. Tilton stepped down sgain, without havine given anybody a sight of anything more stupefying, petrifying or stupendous than his luxuriant "back-hair" and profile. That Mr. Beecher exhibited any special emotion in the preeenoe of Tilton at his first or second appearance Is pure Invention. On the contrary, ho baa recovered his natural appearance to degree since the close of Moulton's examination, under which he had really seemed to suffer severely.

TOE DESTINY OF THE ASTOR nOUSE Seems to hang in doubt, notwithstanding the wise outgivings of our "locals." at which tbe partios Concerned only laugh. The architect has plaus, but no final orders the work of interior destruction has been commenced, but sus-

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nded negotiations with lessees have nearly completed, announced In the phpers as quite completed, and then broken off. The best approach to information I can get from first hands Is a hint that it is still to be a hotel, and that negotiations are now pending with reference to a lease for that purpoee and further, that tho alterations will probably have that end in view at anv rate, and will be so contrived if possible, as to reconcile with that end the enormous value of the property and the depressed and precarious condition of the hotel business, especially down town.

There is no doubt that Mr. Astor is right in estimating the value of the property above that of any other block of the sarfie size down town. It lies at the very threshold of tho grand -entrance oi the new Post Office and U. S. courts, and at the meeting point of all the main avenues of city travel from up town. The only question is whether it is worth more as a first-class hotel,lunch and bar, in this position, or as a focus for tbe great lights of Ihe bar, finanoe, insurance, Ac., for which there is no other position to rival it. The Herlad buildings have not the social character requisite, nor the size near Broadway the Tribune building will have some social defect, besides being on the wrong side of tbe gridiron—Park Row—the Western Union and Evening Post buildings are farther off and in short there is no other possible spot on the right side of Broadway and at the focal point of city travel, or sufficiently spacious (under one owner) for either a grand hotel or a grand financial and professional centre.

If business were not so depressed and hotel keeping so nearly bankrupt, there would be no hesitation in making the Astor House once more a leading hotel. But a man who knows as much by nature and practice about hotel-keeping as any man in this country or any other, tells me that there is hardly a great hotel in this city that could meet its liabilities at a summary settlement, with the whole pro .ertyof its lessees. In a period of business depression like this, the princely scale of fashionable hotel expendltiture necessarily sinks money by the hundred thousands every year. The famous host I have mentioned considers three or four years yet as soon enough to rely on an effectual revival of traffic. By that time, he thinks, necessity and the fruits of now prevalent hard work and retrenchment will have brought about a rush lor fresh supplies, like that of 1842—five years after tho panic of 1837—when tho New York hotels filled up as with a "tidal wave," and made fortunes in a year, just as they had been losing fortunes yearly and are doing now.

Tho growing number and costliness of our hotels is a little like the everlasting plethora and expensiveness of boarding houses. There are always too many people for whom each of these kinds of enterprise has an unaccountable fascin ution, to be made scarce by the contin' ual "cleaning out" of them. They noV' ercan "know when they are whipped," and new fortunes are always just anead Lucky turns and prizes, as at the gam. ing table, come just often enough to lure on the cr«wd.

Meanwhile, the slaughter of the Astor House furniture goes on, and considering that it has* been used eight years or so, it "cuts up" pretty fairly, with the exception of costly articles, which must needs go for a small fraction of their value. The whole outfit cost $127,000 cash, and it is thought may no iv realize not over $30.000 though this is the figures of interested parties, and ten per cent, may be an uuder-estimate. I hope vour readers enjoy the fine romance? of New York locals and letters, about vir tuoso prices realized for the furniture used by Webster, Clay and other great men of the Astor's palmy days. Perhaps they would have enjoyed, too, the chuckle with which "mine host" assured me that not a thing on which tho eyes, much less tho person, of any of those lamented ^ntlemcu ever rested, has been In the Astor House theso eight years past. So much for one oi our prettiest little newspaper sensations,

No, thoso old time.! are gone, like the days of chivalry, never to return. Tho age of personal* hotel-keeping, liko that Of personal generalship, about which all the romance and fame of both cluster, has become merged in a final system of pure finance and mechanism, all figured out by the engineer. A first class hotel is now a splendid machine, as a modern fire engine is, working by its own me chanical forces, without anv use or piace for human individuality. It is perfectly impersonal, uninteresting and commonplacc. As the inchanical element goes up. the human element goes down. The host is no longer a host, but a mere engineer hid away amongst the machinery. So the Stetsons and Cole mans and Bam urns, the Astor and Tremont and all their tutelary demigods, go Into the romance of history with the knights of old, and become cia*8ic shade, no more to re-appear on earth, but forever to live in literature and legend.

MONTHLY LITERATURE.

—Galaxy first, ss usual, snd Mr. White gives us in it another of his musical critiques a department in which he is perhaps even more at home though of late years less occupied, than that of philological criticism. The present generation of Journalist*—s short lived race —hardly remember Mr. White as the leading musical and dramatic critic of tbe New York press, and are therefore to he forgiven for mistaking him for a neophyte in music, when be takes up his ancient role afresh. —Scribner is not yet out, but is a good number in which Holland'a "Seven Oaks" opens richly, and the racy Dr. Chas. B. Robinson, Saxe, Warren. Rhodes, Stsdman, Joaquin Miller, and other well known writers contribute brilliancy to tbe entertainment.

VIDI.

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THE SLENDER STYLE. A Paris ftshion writer saya: "After more than ton years' struggle against I bad taste we have at last arrived aU, something pleasant totheeyoof taste. Grecian draperies are all the vogne wmp and woman, when dressed according to the best acknowledged fa&hion of tke day, resembles f\ beautiful mar bis slatue, chiseled by a master hand. No more puffs, no more crinolines tho folds of the dress, felling over tue figure ags its sole ornaments. It is nature. it to art in all its sublimity. But stout Jgwo» must beware, their reign ia ove»— and they had reigned long enough. tRlli them the waist had entirely disappeared, and women bad began to ioa| like bags of flour, tied in tbo middle. In a word they looked liko bundleo of fat dressed up In showy rags, liko yrizo meat at Christmas timo. Bat thap were tbe fashion, and fashion c&llod them plump! It is only very, very lately that slim figures have reassumed their once supremacy, and English and American girl8 may claim the merit of this. Their supple, reed-like figures could not long remain unnoticod and tbe elegance ef their lithesome waists became the envy of their 'plump' Parisian cousins. The Parisienno herself sow this, and saw also that oho could not longer contend with thoso sylph-liko nymphs otitremer. 'We too, will bo Slim as we were wont to be,' they said. And they consulted tboir dressmakers. The result wss the abolition of pnlfh, which disguised the shape, and the rein traduction of plain skirta, wfclch alone show off the serpontino lines of a wellmade figure, and tho Parislenne, with her easy graco and matchless figure, is once more before us in all her pristine glory."

A NEW INVENTION OF THE ENEMY. [Hon. Will Cumback in Greensburg Standard.]

This brings me to speak of this new style of promenading, with the gentleman hanging on the lady's anu. This is a contemptiblo thing, and Bhould be cast out of all good society as evil. Ono may say, "I can't see any difference which has hold of tbe other's arm." Possession, in law, is conBidejed half, and why not so in other thingsf A woman's safeguard is to keep a man's bands of)' of her. If vou need his" assistance in walking, take his arm instead of his taking yours. Just tell him iu plain English to "hands oft." He may not like it at the time, but be will like you ten-fold more. Men will be, and do, just what tho women allow them to. Men will not do to trust.

Give a man your arm and you will find him very confidential and he will take a great many privileges ho would not tako if he was not permitted to do so. He will give your arm many affectionate squeezes and sly twists that he could have no opportunity of doing, and the opportunity is just what he ia after. A few words more of advice, and I close. Keep your girls off the square only when they have business. Teach them that it is unnecessary to go to the postoffice overy time they go out. Your girls can walk alone just as well as your boys. Don't allow young girls, if they must have a beau, to go with boys much older than themselves. If possl le instil into their very natures tbat they aro safer in their own hands than they aro in tbo hands of any man—preachers not exceptcd.

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Editor of The Mail: "'''j W You wili oblige and aid the caune of humanity by itivinir a place in joum columns to the annexed letter from as* citizen of our city, who is now a hUflerenH*^ from the late scourge in KnmaB. 1 can^** vouch for the writer aa for truth andl^ft veracity. He known to many of old citizen# of our city. 1 propooe tojJfj Bend this faintly souie material aid, and.,,, any person who will l«:ave anyti^ing in the line of provision, clothing or uioney^I with me, or at my shop on north Fifth^TJ I will take and see tbat it is projierly

A small amount from thoce thatf Vj have it to spare will relieve suffering snd^%1 may rave life. What we are disposed tof*^ do let it be done at once.

JAMES HOOK. »..W

BuaLtfc&ToN, Kan., Feb. 0, 1875. 8IB: It is no* nine years since 1 left^ Terre Haute. Fiv« years of that time IfcJrrs have been in Kunia*, and I will give you'd a short accou-1 of mv situation here. have a farm of eighty acres, thirty-five acres under fence, in good condition I paid for the lumber iu my house $214.K By industry and care 1 got a tine loi of^' ftotk. When ini-foriut.escaine in 1873/^f tbe chintz bug destroyed my entire crop^ri of corn and wheat, snd one-half ujy oate:^'*! then I sold t*o cows to buy corn aiid^*^ seed wheat, and having tuy flour and winter clothing to buy, I sold two more.»--jf*' COWP. Well, rpiing c.tine. 1 weot to work with a U, put in wy outs, l.tnted my corn snd potatoes, and enough :p garden for the family, and everything:: was flourishing, snd 1 felt good, but thei:• bugs, the drought and the grasshoppers*'f destroyed it ail. 1 have a pvacb orchard?? of one hundred tre«s. ihey were all,, loaded with praciu**, and the graa^hoppen destroyed all, not leaving a leaf on the trees, and what t-till hurt* is, in the-^g last year I hare had ail my provis ons to buy far two years, and to do this 1 haditk^ to sell two more yearlings and one colt. I am now out of money, out of proviso- '•?.iU ions and scaat of clothing. 1 have nothing left bat my farm and one two yearold colt. Il 1 keep thut I cat', by hiring one horse, plo" and plant, and God may ive tbe iscreas? There is now but our of us in family, and after living sixty-eight years, my wife and I are get- ..i ting feeble, and my eyts are very dim— bat I will not complain. Well, what 1 want to say is thin: One half of the people of Kansas most have help, until ther can raise a crop, or peri*h. 1 with that number need help. Can I get it? Will you, Mr. Hook intercede with the people of Terre Haute me Anything that they will give will be gratefully received. I have not got anything from any sotlrce, only what I have bought and paid for. Anything yoa wish to send direct to Burlington, Co flee coanty, Kansas. I live in Woodson county, bat Burlington is my nearest railroad town.

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D. J. WILLIAMSON.

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