Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 6, Number 16, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 October 1875 — Page 1

Vol. 6.—No. i6.

THE MAIL

A PAPER

SECOND EDITION.

Town-Talk.

The rim this week have turned T. T. in memory back to a score of year* ago, when minstrel hall* resounded nightly with a rattling little melody, whose music wu suggestive of flying boofa and the excitement* of the race coarse, fn that song tho glories of "Cainptown Races" were wounded. It opened with the bold declaration that— catnptown ladies »lng dls *oug, l3o da, do da," followed by tho announcement of the astonishing fact— ••Carnptown n»re« nine ml tow long,

Do da, do tin, day."

Then the singer wrought up to a high pitch %f excitement at the anticipation of fco much sport, declares his determination not only to "run all night," but to •continue that 'exhilarating exercise throughout the hours Illumined by tho god of day and, while declaring that, as for himself, ho has staked his spondttllx on the "bob-tailed nag," he demands, with great earnestness, who will take a similar risk on the "bay."

The song had a great run, and "Camptown It tees" was whistled and sung all over the continent. There are mature and stately matrons to-day, who in the giddiness of girlhood twonty years ago racod It across the piano keys at what would have been styled In the extiavagant vernacular of that day, "a 2:40 gait." (Two-forty what an eternity in trotting chronology some of the fast horses of these days have made that time appear.) Grave, dignified and formal men there are who «nce were "bound to run all night, and bound to run all day,"and so declared to the.muslcof the general song, and it would doubtless make them ashamed now to recall the number of timos amid convivial companions, late at night, they do-da, do-da-dayed.

It is human nature to admire a swift pacing horse, and the sentlmont embodied In tho aong, albeit spicod with the slang of the quarter-stretch and tho suggestive rattle and pace of the melody, appealed to the papular hoart, and gave the song its wide popularity. Tho blood may not course through tho veins quito as rapidly with some of you as It did when the song was new, but the races, whether they be Camptown or some ottlier variety, Imv? their attractions still. T. T. haa observed that a large proportion of the men who go to the races aro in middle life or past it, which shows that a lore for the "how race," (as our paternal ancestor* Invariably denominated it) IIko Othello's Jealousy, grows with what It foods on. Ergo: give a man horse-feed nnd he will take to home*.

TltK "t.AMBS CAIt" HCMBl'O. In the courso of recent travels T. T. haa dlaoovored that that ancient and venerable abomination yclep*. the "Ladies Car" has not yet passed out of existence. He has found ono railroad management so far behind the rest of mankind in the march of progress, as not to have yet discovered that an Institution, established from the seeming necessity of tko rough war times, not only has accomplished its mission, bat was, even in its inception, based upon a false principle, and opposed to every truth of human nature. To bo sure, at A tftne when every train was more or less sprinkled with soldiers enroute to or from th^ir regiment*, among almost every squat! of whom there we ire, unfortunately some black sheep who would drink whisky at every stopping place, and in continence between stations offend noses polite with the fumes of vile liquor and worse tobacco, and ears polite with language not the choicest, to assign a special car to ladies and their escorts, and turn a key between these nones and ears polite and their offenders, seemed the most obvious remedy for soch evils. Yet the result by no means Justified the expectation. For the fact seemed forgrtten that there are boors among civilian* as well a* among soldiers and that these boons whether civil or military. If only accompanied l»y their Samantha Janes, must necessarily be admitted to the "ladles' Oar," where they were quite as likely by their unconth manners to prove offensive to the refined as the unattended sold tar in a ear where ladies were mingled among the passenger*. Moreover, tobaccoohewers ami whisky-drinkers as often travel In female company as nononsu mem of those commodities.

The fact is, the presence of woman is a huataniser. In her absence, men are prone to neglect those amenities of soda! interroarae, those little niceties of demeanor, whirl* her preseoco enjoins, and, particularly to travel, where each is expected to look out for nnmber one, to become coaisc, careleas, and snmlmtfal of the tastes and comfort of others. A promiscuous aseemblags of males is prov- rl .tally onclosn, amfTl Is only the pre"***# «f the outer sex, softening end

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restraining the bnite instincts of manKind, that renders oar passenger cars endurable This influence is felt to a certain extent, by even the lowest and most abandoned rowdies and roughs, however depravod, are affected by a certain fooling of shamo at unseemly behavior in the presence of ladles. Hence the result of excluding those without female compaay from tho ladieVcar was, as might have been expected, to reduce all the other cars of the train to a condition littlo better than that of a respectable pig-sty while the condition of the ladies' car itself was In no whit improved thereby, nor rendered any more respectable than that of all the cars—except only the smoking car— in a train whero tho exclusion did not prevail. In a word, on the excliulvo system there is but one ladies' car in the train, and all tho rest are pens on tue non-exclusive system all the cars, except tho smoking car, aro ladles' cars.

Again, such a system is a rank Injustice to a large class of cultivated and refined travelers, whose greatest misfortune is in being compelled to travol minus a female appendage. Excludod from the only decent car, they are forced to ride in a coach filthy and offensive in the oxtremo, in an atmosphere reeking with nauseating odors, while the veriest drab, or the most brutal rough who chances to bo accompanied by his mate, enjoys all the comfort and cleanliness which he may perhaps not be capable of appreciating, and of which his betters are deprived. For in this democratic land, the line cannot be drawn between the cultivated and the poor—the clean and the unclean—but only upon the basis of sex. Tho "Ladies' Car" was a mistaken idea, as well in the war times as in these days of peace. It is a relic of barbarism which has nearly died ont, from its own inconsistency with the ordinary principles of humanity and T. T. trusts the day is not far distant when every vestige of it will have disappeared. rERSONAU

The smart Alec of the Journal states as a positive fast—no guess work about it —that there has been a change of writers cf the Town Talk column of Tho Mail. So Really, T. T. wishes ho bad s*me fellow to do this work for him. rerhaps Bert Hanna would render some assist a noe. But shaw he would do up a heavy- double column article on 11anance, take a dig at Will Ball, and then "subside, be ausgospielt, go over the dam." At least T. T. so judges from the hog-wash stuff and lack of variety in the editorial columns of the Journal since Col. Hudson surrendered the editorial chair. "Tho lack of ability in thoso columns at present is painfully apparent."

ADDITIONAL PERSONAL.

T. T. never know a young man to enter the editorial chair who did not imagine it his first duty to demolish his ootemporaries, correct their faults, revolutionize Journalism and impress tho people that In himself was embodied all the eloments for properly conducting a newspaper. Like the measles and whooping-cough in children, they all have to pass through this era. The young editor of tho Journal is now paasl ng. II is attention haa been devoted mainly to Ball, of the Gazette, but last Monday before giving bis morning lecture of near a column to tho Express and Gssette, he announces tbe discovery of a "Town Talk" article, "pointless and wltbont merit"—seems to regret tho absence of scurrility, and say* right ont that "tbe lack of ability in that column at present is painfully apparent." Well, well, young man, before yon have cudgelled your brain as long as T. T. has, the reader* of the Journal may expect to And at least one of your articles "pointless and without merit," Indeed, T. T. is not sure but that they have already.

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source of all our present troubles. Look for a moment at the stupendous disturbance occasioned by tbe war in tbe physical economy of tbe country. Two millions of men were suddenly withdrawn from productive industry, from the farms, factories and work-shops of tho country, and converted into an element of destruction. The vast armies that were in the flold during the yeara of tbo war consumed an lneoncelvablo quantity of food and clothing. The result was that tbo agricultural interest suffered heavily from tho immense drain of young men from it, while ovory branch of manufactures was stimulated by the great demand for supplies for the army. This abnormal condition of things continued throughout tho war. At its closo the soldiers roturned again to civil pursuits but no ono need bo told that for every thousand who went from the farm not half the number, in proportion, went back to farm life when the war was over. It was an era of unrest and speculation. A great minority of the soldiers embarked in some sort of manufacturing or commercial life. Thus tho derangement, instead of being cured, was perpetuated. Things could not always go on so. There came a collapse, a crash—the panic of 1873. It was not the eui rency that produced it, either as to quality or amount it was the monstrous eoonomio disturbance created by the war. Wo shall get over it some time, but tho recovery will and must bo slow and gradual. It will take time for the various industries of the country to readjust themselves. It cannot be done in a year. Congress cannot do it nor the politicians. Neither contraction nor expansion can work tho miraclc nor yotpapor money or gold money. Confidence and industry, faithful labor and economical living, theso In due time will solve the problem and nothing else will. Those peoplo who look to tho elections for a curp for the evil will look In vain.

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sound and stablo currency would havo great influence in helping this restoration, mainly in doing away with this constant agitation of the currency question.

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Husks and Nubbins.

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Tlte currency question is "on" again. very body fat expected to have "view#" on tbe national finances, to proclaim hi* allegiance to "rag money** or "the specie basis," and apoot rabid inflation or stolid contrsctlonlsm. Wendell Phillips lifts op his voice in the far East in favor of paper money and expansion and Carl Schurs answers from the West In a teutonic yell for gold and contraction. A* I write the campaign In Ohio Is drawIn* to a close and doubtless the mo* mentons Imom will have been decided before this article bt put in type.

There has been more foolishnesn talked and printed on this money question than on any mawan of public interest for a long Umo. Potting aside for Use present tbe incidental question whether paper or gold constitutes the best currency, tbe greet mistake has been made of holding oar present monentary system responsible for tbe late panic and tbe ensuing and continuing depression of httdnw.

The truth is tbe currency bad an exormiTinfij email infloeace if any at all. In producing the present condition of affairs, Tbe origin of the panic must be sought elsewhere and is not difficult to diseovtr. Tbe late war was tbe obvious

is noticeable that whenever

there is a discussion of this question, either in Congress or in a political campaign, like that now going an in Ohio, there is greater stringency in money and greator stagnation in business. And the reason is obvious. All kinds of business transactions depend on the faith of man in man and whenever there is a disturbance of this faith and a corresponding distrust, business inevitably suffers. And whenever men get to talking about the bard times and the closeness of money matters each gathers distrust from his neighbor. It is like telling ghost stories at a oountry store at night and then starting off to walk homo: the very air seems alive with "spooks" and hobgoblins. Nothing will make hard times quicker than to suspect the times are hard and talk about it nothing will cure hard times so soon as to be hopefal and confident and go on working just as If tho times were ever so good. It Is said that when an army is fatigued and almost wore out by a long, bard march, the sudden starting uy a band of musio will impart a wonderful vigor and alacrity to the men, so that they can march on as if refreshed by rest and nourishment. We cannot disguise the fact that our hopes and fears exercise a great influenoe over our actions. A despondent army cannot tight a country in which there is a constant or periodical distrust of the currency cannot be prosperous. This Is tho advantage which a currency founded upon a specie basis has over one which reels merely on the promises of the government. The one Is uniform and unchangeable, tbe same always. The other is uncertain and changing: worst of all, it breeds discussion and agitation and these, in tbeir torn, beget distrust, fear and ultimately prostration of business. Let ns have a sound currency, tho very beet that it can be but let no one suppoee that a return to specele payments would suddenly restore the country to Its former prosperity. Unquestionably that result will be aided by a wise financial system but something more then that is needed to produce it*

MATRIMONIAL.

W. 8. Res, of the wholesale grocery bouse of Curtis, Rea ft Co., brought home a new bride from (be East this week.

Tho*. IK Cook, of this city and MH» Mattie Heberd, of Vinocnnes were married at tbe residence of the bride's parents last Tuesday, Rev. S. P. Donham assisting In the nuptial ceremony, and James Hunter and Miss Lottie Smith, of this city, Howard Iiatnar of Aurora, Indiana, and the bride's sister acting as attendants. A. trip to Chicago supplemented tbe ceremony.

Guff Arn so long sad honorably connected with the postal service here and St Vicksburg, and Miss Llxxie Van Brunt, daughter of UM «x-chief of tbe Fire Department, were married on Tburaday evening, and are now enjoying a trip to Chicago. Tbe eeremony, conducted by Rev. B, F. Howe, witnessed by only a few intimate friends, but both these worth) people nave hundreds of warm who wish them happiness In tbeir new relation.

"All Styles of Base Burning Stoves, for either hard or soft coal at tbe "Champion Stove Store," Main SW, let. 4th and

fTERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 16. 1875. Price' Five Cents

Amusements.

H-AYKRLY'8 MINSTRELS.

Such an audience has never greeted the Ilavorly Minstrels as that gathered at tbo Opera House on Tuesday evening, and never before did that popular organization givo a more pleasing performance. Instead of negro minstrelsy dying out, it will long have a fast hold on tbo populnr heart, when presented by such companies as tho Haverly'n whore .tho grosser features of old time companies aro put in the back ground to make room for the highest musical and dramatic talent.

THOMAS ORCHESTRA.!"

Tho big event of next week will be cotning of the Grand Orchestra of Theodore Thomas. Boyond all questiou this gentleman has the honor of waving tbe baton over tho finest orchestra in America and fortunate aro wo in boing on the high road between the large cities, for to this fact alone are wo favored with these annual visits. Let our poople of culture seo to it tbut tho management stifle re no pecuniary loss. Let the Opera House be filled with an audience that will encourage the coming of the best musical and dramatic talent. The sale of seats is now progressing at the Control Bookstore.

The following Is tho programme, and while classical, it is ono that will reach the popular heart: Overture. Consecration of tho House, op

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Beethoven.

Prelude,") Choral, ..... Bach. Fugue,

Adapted for Orchestra, by J. J. Abert. AlIogroGioJoso, Mendelssohn. Mine. Madeline Schiller and Orchestra. Khapaodia Hongrolae, No. I t, (Now,)...Liszt. Overture, Tanlnenser W Chorus Dance of

re, Tanlnenser Wagner. of Happy Wj lrlts In Blyslura.T it Furies,

Gluck.

Flute Obllgato, by Mr. Carl Wchner. Bolo lor Piano, "Recollections of Ireland." Moscheles.

Mme. Madeline Schiller.

Serenade Schubert. Adapted for Orchestra by Theo. Thomas. Torchlight March, No. 8, minor,

Meyerbeer.

HART'S MINSTRELS

Playod at tho Opera House last night. There have been worse companies here, but not lately. Only a moderate audience sat through tho wearisome and unsatisfactory performance.

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One week from Monday and Tuesday ovenidgstho McKee Rankin company will play the Two Orphans, at the Opera House. They havo been playing it at Indianapolis this week with so much acceptability that tho engagement will be extended through next week. The Indianapolis Journal says: "The largest audience that ever thronged TTie Academy of Music was thatof last evening, every inch of available room being occupied, and hundreds being turned away unable to obtain entrance. Early in tho evening placards were displayed at tbe boxoffice with the lugubrious motto of "Standing room only," and people able and willing to pay for first-class places, rather than

mentsof any ever before an Indianapolis audience. Jatnee P. Voorhoes' rendition of Hamlet will be on tbe 28th instead of 27th, as first announced, the ball of the Hebrew Benevolent Society occurring on tbe latter date.

AMUSEMENT PEOPLE.

Lew Benedict bas loft Duprez and joined Bryant's Minstrels. Tietlens has large mouth, as many famous prima donnss have.J

The report of 3. L. Fox's facial paralysis was only a foxy advertisement. Ilaverly's Minstrels go to Cuba shortly, and will return here In tbe Spring.

The Indianapolis Courier says: Billy Emerson is falling off in tbe song and dance business. He will lose his grip upon reputation If he is not more careful."

Mrs. Jan. A. Dates and her newly organised English Comic-opera Company will oommencc an engagement at the Arch-street Theatre, Philadelphia, on the ISth of October.

J. II. Haverly is runoltig a minstrel show st Chicago with immense success. He hasn't seen the company that wss here this week for some time—entrusting It solely to his sssistant, Harry J. Clapham, one of the cleverest gentlemen In the show business. I

Ham (iraham, a St. 1/rals negro minstrel, committed suicide a few days ago. That evening his chair In tbe row of performers wss left empty sad draped in black, tbe songs were all melancholy In character, and no jokes were cracked— which must have made tbe entertainment very cheerful.

Ind. Herald: Mr. James P. Voorbeee, son of his father, will shortly appear at the Terre Haute Opera House as "Hamlet." We have no doubt young Voorhoes will soqult himself creditably, but we should rather see Daniel In the part. Bsyless Hanna could be induced to nelp him out with "Mrs. Lofty."

Dupres A Benedict's Minstrels are organised as follows for the season of 1875Cbso. H. Dupres, manager Geo. H. Edwards, Hamuel Prioe, Jsmes T. Onlick. D. H. Smith, Fred Heinrieh, Frank Kent, John Latour, iv« and Ward, W. M. Hogan, Cleo. H. Splndler, W. F.

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A. T. Stewart's income: 93,000,000 a year. ..» Jim Fisk's father is lecturing ou temporaries.

All wish tolivo long but none to be called old. Urant, it is said, will retire from office a millionaire.

Three of our ox-Presidonts died on tho 4th of July.

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Tho disposition to turn pirate is dying out of our youths. What can bo inoro unpoetlc than to find a bit of gristle in mincc pie

Theso crisp days make the human mind spurn the aid of Ash diet. A revival of pearl buttons on gents' shirts is noted in New York society.

Tho contented man is never pooreven though his debts exceed his assets. Men must work, and w»men must weep, And the sooner It's over, the sooner to sleep.

Whon a man works only for himself he gets neither reet here nor reward

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hereafter. 4 •»«.-, «t» -t Nino conductors in ten hoist a lady in by her funny-bono, says the Philadelphia Star.

If Wilkes Booth Is really alive, why hasn't ho been invited to doilvor some agricultural addresses?

An oxchango philosophically remarks that tho most oloquent man is tho man who means what ho says.

Ulton receives a gross sum for 100 lectures and bis manager will make a fortune out of tho venture.— Chicago Tribune.

Jews In tho Orient are beiug put to death on charges of blasphemy. Thus aro they paid back in tho coin of ovor eighteen centuries ago.

Frank Moulton sticks to bis friends closer than a brother. Ho managed to mako it convenient to drop into Tllton's lecture in Boston, thongh he had heard it before in New York and Brooklyn.'

It cost tho conductor ou a Wisconsin railroad one thousand dollars to kiss Miss Helen Cracker whilo in his chargo as a passenger, and he avers that tho Cracker was a very stale ono at that.,^

The Young man who bas beon glorying in a long-tailed coat tho past season is horrified to find that he has got either to get a longer overcoat or cut off tbe tails of tho. dress-coat.—[ Danbury News.

It is easier to raise a hundred dollars for the purchaso of a gold watch to bo presented to somebody who does not neod it, thaR it is to collect the samo amount for some poor man, for the same persons who owe hjm the money.

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In Springfield there is a store that makes a practice of having a sort of bulletin hung out with a funny cartoon. On Monday there was a picture full length of TLlton, easily recognised, and over It: "This man bad a snit that cost him |75,000, and lasted him only six months. We will sell ono lor 97.50 that will last twelve months." Mr. Tllton saw it, and had a hearty laugh as he »topEed5«|n,d read it.-[Boston Advw

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The famine lament—nothing to weur. Ultra fashionables wear ten-button

Tbe latest pew seat is open tracked, to let the bustle havo play. The Krie Railroad Is going to'lntroduca temsle clerks in Its office.

How aro ladies going to skate this winter in pull-back dresses? Kid gloves, two-batton, aro .now made for babies a year old and upward.

The newest feminine shoe has an open itsrtep to revoal the fancy hosiery. I Cash-girl* are tho rale in New York now, ami cash-boys tho exception^

If pall-backs get much worse we modest menll have to go to wearing colored g°ggi«*"Crushed strawberries" Is tbe oddsounding name of anew color. Bichc Is a bsautiful gray shade,

Nllsson Is getting stout, but you'll never see her in a sideshow as a fat woman, not if she weighs 1100 lbs.

Brocaded velvets area decidedly striking novelty lo be used for overdresses. Tbey also strike apockct book—*11 in a heap.

A Delphi woman dreamed that her sister was run over by railroad train, and the next morning learned tkst sho bad twins.

A woman always wants her husband's Judgment In the selection of a ealtoo dress, and titeo buys ono according to ber own.

The time is slowly but surely coming, when the woman without will look with bitter envy upon the woman within a seal skin cloak.

House-claaning la again in vogue, and the time has come when tbe door-be! 1 Is sounded—tbe lady of the house starts from her scrubbing—knows it is her d««r p«*tor—wipM her hands on her

apron—rushes to her room—tosses on a wrapper—gracefully wraps a shawl around her form—smilingly glides to tho door, slid—finds a man with roue patent washing compound for sale.

A Mrs. Barrett, widow of Lieut. Barrett, of the United States Navy, who died fourteen years ago, committed suicide in Brooklyn Tuesday evening last. It is said that she took her life in order to avoid testifying In court to the disgrace of her sister.

Always show a sunny face to one with whom you may have had a "spat." Laugh your hardest when he can hear, sing your liveliest when ho is by. Theso things make him believe you ere most happy, when he would much rathor think you are most miserable. ,' v.a'1L

At Jackson, Ohio, Governor Hendricks was escorted to a hotel which, though it had a Democratic landlord, had a Repablican landlady. As a consequence, that particular hotel displayed no flags on tho day of the Democratic meeting. Who says the women have MO influence IM this country?

An lntollij*ent lady correspondent of the Clevelaud Herald says: "If I were a man and a voter I would no more sell my vote than I would sell tbe virtue of my wifo or daughter and I would no more stay away from the polls than I would stay away from the holy oommunlon if I know that to-night my soul would be required of me." It woull be well indeed if every voter had so high conception of the importance of tho elective franchiso. ______

Connubialities.:

raon went awt wl' out a kiss,—

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we quarreled IHUI the morn,— $ Says he, "It ent"—sn.vs I, "It U, 'A-mw As sure as yo' be boru." j-

An* so we quarreled bad, for he .**'*' Z? Wer' reignt, an' aw wer* wrong Only a month a'* wedded me, 4

Uut soon fouu' uwl my tongue. t-

Ay, sure enow, nw wer' loo bad ..,J Aw'vo got nn awful will But eum—RW'II ntak* It up wl't' lad

When a' cumuli! fro't' mill. s'**

Aw 11 nut putalvs on ta Are, _*$ ?i} An' bake ta bit o' mint, ii»f An' when a' cums In from ta mill

Aw'll speak ta un relght sweet. """I

Them awfu' mills,— aw'm a'moast 'frald

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O'summatfor my inon Ther's alius plenty gettln' hurt, An' my lad molght be Who's that a knocking? Dang the latch—

O (Jod I—that aw wer' born,— He's lyln' ther' all white an' stiff J.i We quartclcd bad the mom! 1 1 ». IsK sir #.,-f

No man brought up to milk oows will ever mako anything bnt submissive husband.

A mllk-pitclier, thrown at his wife by a Nelson street man, on Monday noon, missed tbe aim nnd ruined handsome frame which inclosed the words, "God bless our home."—[Connecticut paper.

When you're on tho way to your marriage, young man, there's no nooesslty of looking ss though you were on the way to a bank you know bad bursted. A bravo man moots misery with smile.

Tbe latost discovery at Pompoii is that of a figure of a woman lighting afire in tho cook-stove, wbile ber husband Is asleep in bed. And yet wo talk about the advanced civilization of tho Nine* teenth Century I

Tbe old bouse cat purring on tho rug, the dog serenely dreaming of a bourne freo from fleas, the tea-kettle singing merrily, your arm sronnd ber waist, her hesd on your shoulder—wbo has the faoe to decry Winter?

Only a west side man oould be tfo mean. He had been Jilted in favor of a man whose visual organs were slighter "off," and after the wedding he drew up a beautiful copy of a popular hymn, beginning "Simply to thy aroee-eyecling/' and sent It to the bride.—{Inter-Ocean.

On the subject of matrimony, a French philosopher advises: Fathers and mothers, if you should choose to take the trouble to see tbronuh your fatufo sons-in-law, just look out of tho window at them as they ring tbe door-bell. Daughters needn't look maidens In love never have but one eye, and most of the time not even that."

A Chicago woman advertises lb tbo Msrriige Baraar: "I want an bonor$Me, honest gentleman for a husband. No lawyer, dootor, or politician may apply. I will give my future bos band on my nuurisgo day $10,000 cash, and twloe that amount in real estate. I am 22 years of sge, 5 ft. iX in. high, weight 110 lbs., a good musician, and well edfloated. Editor has address." *.

It's strange bow absent-minded, uncomprehending, sod deaf some husbands booome about this time of tbe year. Some scientific man should mako •osrch to discover If it is tbe change from tbe eslray Summer weather to the chilling Autumn days that causes this alteration in husbands. We have heard one wife remark to her buaband a doeen times: "John, dear, don't you think it's time to put up tbe stove And he never seemed to hear ber, On Saturday evening she repeated tho words. Still be did not hear her. Then she raised her voice and said: "John, if that stove hint put up to-night, I'll try if I canH bring back your hearing with an application of rolling-pin.'-' The stove was po. up.

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