Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 6, Number 20, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 November 1875 — Page 2

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HAUTE, NOV. 13,1875.

THE FARMER KINO.

The tuner ant in hU old arm-chair, lloaj- and fair, C'onUntod th«ra.

Kate, I declare,"

He mid to hl» wife, who wu knitting near, We nej not fear The hard times are here, Though the leaf of life to yellow and sere,

I'm tbe king, and you are the queen, Of this fairy scene. These field* of grwen

And gold between,

These cattle ((rasing apon the hill, Taking their fill. And tnwp so still, Like many held by a *1 nglw will. "These barny.'l fowl* are our subjects all

Th« i»«*i the call, And tike a MI nail, Oa (HAL wing* fall,

Whenever we scatter for them the grain* Tin not In vain We live and rvifn In this our happy and calm domain.

And whether theday be dim or fine, In rain or whine, These land* of mine,

These field* of thine, I

In cloudy nhade an in sunny glow, Will overflow With crop* that K+ow, Wbeu gold hl*h and when it t* low. "Unvexed with shiftingorstocksandshares.

And bulls and bears, BtrttM* and earea, And the attain

Of speculation In mart and street,v in thia retreat ttweet peace can meet With plenty on her rtirnl bent.

lOvfriand Mouthly.]

The Frozen Truth.'

wh'ti it snowa in Nevada it blows, but the dewrt eaatb, under tho fallen anow, in usually warm enough to cause tba snow to adhere to the hocla of boots In fprcat rough buttons, which, when they fill Ion the boal, leave upturned in tho foot-print* of the walker sliarply defined ami dirty Impressions of various tack-heads atid heel-taps. When it anows and blows in Nevada tho climate out of doors, though bracing, is not really pleasant to most persons. It not one of those blows to which you enn turn vour back, unless vou would wheel about and turn about like tho legendary Mr. James Crow because, owing to the montain-vallev topography of tho State, the wind becomes bewildered, like the eddying waters of an overflowed river, and knows no constant channel: hence except through tho mneuiberod knowl odge of natural laws, it is difficult to realize whether the snow is going up, coining d*»wn,or commingling crosswise and "through ither," like a cotillion in a frenzy.

During such a storm in a mountain silver-mining town tho citlzons who aro not underground (both the quick and tho dead) are in the house, or hastily slamming doors behind them, and rushing, with up-turned 'coat-collars, humped shoulders, and contracted necks, along tho street to othe doors, which they slam and through which they rush with stamping feet aud steaming breath like locomotives down-breaking uito the round-house. There Is a creaking of wooden shell-houses, a trembling and a singing of loose window-sashes, a whirling of old boxes and empty kegs along tho stree t, in short races, as gust after gust sends them hither and thither with thechangitm blasts and through It all the grunting black hog gooth placidly wading at*'tit, with a horn of white snow on his ebon snout.

On such a dsv the saloon, by which wo mean the whisky-mill, is the headqusrters—perhaps, more exactly, tho stomach-quarters—of mountain society. Here is comfort—tho truth is tho truth! Here in warmth, and seats, good cheer, bad langungo, old Jokes, new jokes, all sorts of character, and a thoroughly entrenched scorn of the howling whiterobed battling of the elements. The hot water steams upon the Stovo the alcoholic amusements shine behind thoir painted labels, like tho well-groomod steed* of tho sun-driver tho pale yellow of exotic limes and lemons rises in mluiatnro pyramids, on l»sea of upturnod crystal glasses, at each sldo or in front of the great mirror, which reflects the •apple shoulders, wriggling elbows, and elaborately done twok hair of the Adonis who mixes "the poison"and polishes, with rapid napkin, the glittering goblet whose late contents cost the buyer just ••two blta," or a quarter of a dollar. Here are newspapers of all aorta, from all par to, In several languages a place tosltyourself down and put your North American ftw* as high as your centennial head, while the backs of your legs, away up, aro comforted by tbo glowing stove as you absorb tho news or many lands' llere are pk?tar«s on the walla. •om* of which are valuable as art, and others which show t# the artistic mind that art is valuable—when you find it,

Here the Isolate "wits* of the camp come with their newaat "good thing »ind here the anxious unapprecUtive roan coraw, day after day, and his hope"lesw hunt after what it (a that "the fellers btturb ao damnation loud at," when dan* see nothinV Her® is the charming fellow, who is not only un*onscfc«uuy "witty In himself, but the mwm of thai which la wit in other men."

U«r« Is the club, the lecture-room, the town-meeting,theacadeniy.and the forum of the camp. Here, If you can keen sober, and If yon low your fellawman as a young healthy mother love® her twin babies, you can observe, and rttM|f»rmid vour BlOtlOy DACiC* wn may find that the undauntod offiwnng of the Aryan is at one moment tho brightcet. crispwst, ami sweetest of hoorv nature's Infinitude of infanta, ana at another moment sour and unaavory many domorrnliaed infantcon be.

On one of those days I have hinted at. In one of those places I have jnst do•oribed, there sat a man in the middle «tf the room, away from the store and distant from the bar. with hi* feet on one of the gnwn bal*^covered wond card-tables, and legs crossed so that his boot-toes formed a about on a level with his eyes. Ho was leaning taw* on the two le«r* of his *halr, with hi* soft black hat puiled oarelully over the eye that was toward tbo stove and the company, and his two hands, palm to piloi, shoved easily between his thighs. 8lttiiut thus, be seemed to take right through the of his boot te«a,aa be letourely, silently, and, no doubt, re-

car, sending the smoke, by a peculiar noviching ofhls neither U5. in thin carta pasubat oneof his ay wM- had no hot over It. There was a about the stove warmly discussing a mixture of important qu««Uons, while ooollv dtactxtMiing various warm mixtures nasty •tndjtht drinkers at the bar came and went!and wiped their moustaches hat our friend sat at the Ublesbeorbed, and oblivious to all surrounding*. I*oabi~ Ww* words fell upon his cars—wtirds tnlxfd tivd varioun thfi ItnltiUo ihim of the growing froatwork on the window ,iu the wail opposite to his elevated toes S

•but seemingly he heeded not, or hearing heard not. Suddenly, from the tmall Bfbel of talk that surrounded the stove a sharply defined enunciation said::

Now, boym, just let me tell you the truth. I'll tell you the God's truth about it."

Don't yoa do II5" came in a rolHiJg deep bass from oat unmoved friend by the table.

Don't do what asked the volunteer man of truth at the stove, after a started pause.

Don^t tell the truth. Dont, my friend don't try it." "Why?" questioned several of the crowd, who had now turned their attention to the man at the table. "Because it's dangerous!" answered the deep bass voloe.

The h—1 it is t" exclaimed the falsetto of a profane "stbve-herder." Yew, sit1. A lie you can live downit la the truth that hurts." Ami he roppod bis feet off the table, changed his hat from the side to the back of his head, threw awsp the remnant of his cigar and turned facing his interrogators. Leaning his elbow upon tbe table, he further remarked: And you see before you living monument of the fitct that truth dangerous."

Just hero a man came from the storm without, slamming through the door, stamping tho snow off his heels, shaking the whito flakes from his hat and coat while making the announcement withi "Wh-o-o-h!" that "The white fly is just aMwarmin'."

Give us a drink," to the bar-keeper Then, to the crowd around tho stove "Here, you fellers, quit herdln' that stovo, an' come take a drink."

To this invitation a majority of the company arise to respond butonr friend at the table keeps his seat, leaning back in his chair, and permitting his hand to fall negligently over the edge of the table.

Come up an' stand in." No excuao me. I'm not dry, thank you, an' I'm smoked out," anHwern the man at the table. "Drink hearty, an' never mind me."

No, never mind him. lie's a mon ument, he savs." Yes, a livin' monument o' the fact that truth is dangerous an' when you fellers get clono throw-in' yourselves outside o' them drinks, I'll explain mysoll if vou choos© to listen." "All right. Hero wo go"—which means that they do not go, but stand still and drink.

What WJIS that said he who had just treated, by which act ho was temporary foroman of the jury. "What was that you fellers were on as I came in? I want.t°hear it." "Well, sir, I was alout—-that is,I was willing—to rolate a circumstance on telliwg the truth. In fact, I wanted to speak a pleco on the dangers of veracity —but it's not amusing, and perhaps not suited to this audience."

Well, go ahead on it," said the volunteer foreman. "Whoever don't like it can take a spin round the square, and drop in again in time tho next drinks."

Thus encouraged, our friend began "I've just been back home, in the States—just returned. I hadn't been home for near twenty years an' when I left homo I was a wild boy who—so some old wise ones said—was born to come to no good. So's I was sayin', I thought I'd be particular fine,high-tone, good behavior, go to church, listen to the sermons, 'n' all that sort o' thing, just to show these old prophets they were no judges o' human prospects. Well. I got to telliu' ono day about California 'n' Nevada—an' I'd ooen tellin', more or less, on an' on, little by little, how it was in the gold-mines, 'n' about big bears, big punkins, an' big things generally but this particular time I got to talkln'about Nevada, 'n' about travelln'through tho State, across tho mountains, an' the valleys, an' the sage-brush an'the alkali-flats, etc. An' this what I was tellin', was at a family house, to a party o' neighbor men, women, an' children, who'd been Invited by some relations o' miuo to soo the distinguished gentleman 'from California an' there was ono young feller thore—a sort o' lawyer-lookin' bright kind of a chap— an* he kept his eye on mo while I was talkin', an' I was In a bigh old humor for talk, you bot, an* a-nuttin' up lip like a pet parson at a petticoat quiltin An' after I aort o' narrowed down to a barren placo in my load, an' there wasn't much savin by nobody, this young fellor sidled down to me, an' said he'd be happy to have me come up to the club. 'Club I' savs I. 'What club?'

Tho .Special,' says he. 'Special what says I. 'Special Literary,' says he. 'Art, poetry, romance, humor, wit, wisdom, and—and—veracity.' 'When is it?' 'Kvery Saturday ovoning,' says he. 'Where Is It?' "'At the club-reoms. I'll oouie for you.' 'All right,' say* I. 'Special IJterary goes—though what in thunder Special Literary is on I don't know.' '0! says this smart young feller, 'well make It easy for you to find out an'I think th® members will all be pleased to see you, particularly Judge Shadwell. Haven't you met the judge?' 'I reckon not. Don't remember any Shad wells in mine.' 'Ah!'—an' he called it 'awh'—''he's chairman of the clnb—gay old gentloman, splendid intellect—bo pleased to meet you.' "An' then the young man harried away to some other point In tbo room, an' left me sittin' beside nice-lookin' honest country lass, who ooald only say •yees' an' 'noo,' as soft as poached egg* an' that alwav* knocks my conversational powers flatter 'n a wat4r*oaked newspaper. I tell you, boys, wsll-regu-lated society is terrible on a man—terrible, terrible!"

Here the gentleman drew his chair toward the stove, as though tbe flu-off memory of "well-regulated society" pervaded his system with the solemn chillnem of an empty church. «»Well, go show! an* tell us bow you got along with that young woman," aaid a red-hiured man on the opposite aide of tbe stove.

Got along with that young woman I I couldn't get along with Her. There wasn't nothln' of her but bread an' butt»r, an' some home-made up dry goods. There was no Intellect into her. She was a rare young femaje-nraw, I might say. But then she might ha' done better with a less distinguished man I'm always wlllln' to moke allowance. I know that every person hasn't crsased the continent, nor lived on beans straight—an such persons cant be expected to 'know

Well, then, yon wound up business twenty-fl*''* cents on the dollar—at that social |.«rty, and got away fr"»n them Then what did you* dof« queried the volunteer foreman. "O Lord Jake, otoee that door."

Yea, I'll close this door scon's I get theae nuba of iced snow out o» the wav," answered Jake, Jamming »»d rattling the door to force away the accumulation of soiled icy anow. "Whatdid I do? Why. I went to that club. An' there I found a room carpeted all off nice, an* a marble man­

tel-piece, an'everything fine an' e«y for a feller who can eodurtj a good deal rest an* sittin' round. There were newspapers round on tbe tab lea, an'several ntoa o' books standing agunik tbo wall an' one o' the leadin' members kept a sort o' magazine newspaper peanut literary pop-shop down stairs on the ground floor, an' be bad some barrels in bis oellar—sacrament wine an' medical

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urposes, you knon!—and these Special ducks could have somethln good when they'd a mind to call for It. Well, I was introduced in among these chaps aa tbe 'gentleman from California, an* I bowed round an' pranced in among 'em, an' flourished my white cambric pocket table cloth, Uko a sweet young Methodist preacher at acatnpmeetln'. Then I was specially Introduced to Honorable Judge Kphndm Shadwell, an' we all took seats. While I was splittln' my coat tall* apart to mt down, I prospected the Honorable Ephralm Shadwell, an' say* I to myself—Inwardly, you know—'Old Shad, If you ain't a "Smoove Eph," then it's my treat.' An'this put me in mind of il So I remarked, 'Gentleinon, can't have somethin'—-aomethin' to take?' au' I went down into iny breeches'-pocket after the collateral but there is where I missed it, an' forgot myselfan' thought I was back here again in a whisky-mill They like Bomethin' to take back there'L well's we do here, but they suck it more on the sly—for tho sake o' the risin' generation they call it. Now, jjpu all—most all—know that 1 don't liko liquors "Ono!" Khoutod a chorus of voices. "You ain't got notalont for whisky.no placo to put it! It's somebody elseman with the light red nose, perhaps."

Unloss thoy aro very choice, pure and well handled." "Ah!"

An' when I strike a thing tuat kind in a gentlemanly company, I tion deny it, I am happy. I suppose it's all wrong, pernicious, pauperising, an' all that sort o' thing, but I tumble to it naturally an' on this occasion I was way up—everything was lovely as Opbir when she booms!" "Well, as I was tho distingulslic stranger, of courso the lioft o' the talk soon came to me. They wanted to hear about California, an' I gave 'em California—now, you bet I did 1 told 'em all that I thought everybody must know an' had known, about tho country, an it seemed news to them. Then I told 'em somo things about California which I think nobody knows, an' never will know. You have to do these things, yon know, in good society, to make yourself interesting. Then, this young Toiler who had boon with moat tho parity, and was at that moment leanin' his elbows on tho back of Old Shad's high cliair, which was right a-front o' me— he says, lookin' at me, 'Tell us about vour trip in Novada—that ono you told at tho party the other night!' 'Yes,' says Old Shad 'that Nevada is a very straago country, by all accounts. I should, for ono—and I assumo to speak for all present—bo much gratified to learn about that country from a gentleman so well qualified by nature and oxporicnco to represent it. Bo pleased to proceed, sir.' "When Old Shad made me that little speech, and reached his hand to the table lor his glass o' liquor, there was a dignity, a grace, a full fitness about him that niado mo think him a born Judge." "Judge o' what?" "Of everything. An inspector of the universe. A man.sir, capable, by turns of microscopic atomization, on the one hand, and of being a cosmographer of worlds on the other!" "II—1! don't he sling a dictionary jaw-bone," queried a sotto voce.

Old Shad—you've seen fellers like Old Shad! but you haven't seen many. Ho was the most innocent and attentivelooking middlo-agcd person I ever saw. His face seemed to iairly beam with attention and respect toward me! His lively little black eyes were laughed back into his head by two circles o' wrinkles, which yet waited round the front doors to get a chance to poke 'em in the ribs if they overcame out again. Ho had a circular alkali-fiat on top of his head, with a little black bunch of grease-wood in tho middle of it. Then, his face was shaved clean, and he was, except bis eves, as pretty a countenanced gentloiiian as ever I saw. One of those fatherly persons who never forget that all good men are twice a boy, an' forever a little youthful. He was sorao fatter than there was any need of, and—he wasiA a blonde. When he said, 'Be pleased to proceed!' I proceed ed. 'Gentlemen says I, 'the Sage-brush is the Wonder-land of grown-up children. Its history is to the active intellect of North America what the reading of the Nine Books by Herodotus waa to tbe pulse of young Athens—tbe stimulus to greater daring and deeper diggings. What the poet and tho painter havo done for the rude ases prior to gunpowder, which gave us tne pictures of the battlo-axe, tho claymore, the aclmitor, tbo long-oared galley, and the castle-crowned cliff, the coming American, combining in himself the artist and tbe artisan, must do for tbe long processions which followed the sun by day and watched with the stars by night, among the great rocks and dim vistas of the weird mirage-hauntod wilderness. The rough forged long barrel of the immortal aharp-shooter—that aspiring warnp-blackblrd, from wbooe sweet throat IJberty first warbled and Freedom learned to whistle—and the wand colled round with the detonating taper of the ox-driver's whip, must be Inwoven with our heraldic designs, until after ages, sir, shall learn that tbe sacred is the true and tried—the useful still tbe holiest."

You was putUn' it up pretty steep, wasn't you Inquired the foreman. should say I was! Old Shad's face was bewitching me with the rosy dawn ot unborn compliment. It wasn't often I got an audience like that. I was talkin" then, not about California, but about Nevada, and' it seemed Uke I was called upon to speak a piece for tbe 'Gal I left behind me,' an' I waltzed in with all the fine points I'd ever heard of—and could remember at the time. But I held myself right down to the cold truth—only flushing It occasionally, like tbe top of a snowy aunset mountain with tbe roseate alpengiowof our rsrifled atmoapbere. 'Oentlenwu,' I continued,'when our mnoUfft ptthbmorio tocwtori hickw their wild mysteriona story In the raggrd yet rtwular edges of #, it Scattered flinty arrow-heads they Utile knew that unborn ages of a quickened Intellectuality would pn*pect «nwng their 'float' for tho after-thought of the aoul'a immortal longings. And when the ancestral frtbem of thisroung repabtie, sitting upon the ragged edg» of the new-born constitutional eonsciesi---dar»i weigh down Infant tr ury to purchase fro» "lno Man of I tiny" that tnystarr of eropirtkoownss Louisiana, UtOe they dreamed that an after-time »f quicker Intellect would prospect amid the drifting enows and whirling dusts of aa and waste, and find -find what Ah, gentlemen, the rock-ribbed coffer* of a world-tbe treasury of nations now that are, and of others yet to tome! 'Gentlemen,' saya

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We'll drink. Here's to tile boya at the front—The Proapeeton 1 'Now, gentlemen,' says I, after we drank and were seated, 'these men who have dtoooyered these great mines aptd bonantat have ibugbta battle nolesa glorioua than thai fought by the elaasic youth who dressed their hair In the mountain-garge, where still the botspringa taWoUS up, whispering to heroic hearts, This Thermopyla." '"But alas! these modern heroes in the montaln-paases of tbe Desert-land did not need to dress their hair in the throat of death, because they were

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of having it lifted and dressed after death, with all the honors of barbaric pouip, while their bones were left to be dragged to the galloping midnight music of tho prairie-wolf, into the distant waste behind the veil of the night's dim circle. Not the "uututored" was their only foe, for him they tutored after awhile—but want and storm, and houseless, homeless loneliness, and unrequited waiting and sometimes Death came softly down upon his black wings with tho glances of the Bweet-faced moon, and made the lonely sleeper's dream eternal in tbe sage. •••Gentlemen.' I continued, 'to give you an idea of the vicissitudes of climate, and the hotiseloss hardships of tbe earlier days In Nevada, before the peculiarities of tbe climate were understood, I will relate, now, the simple and truthful talo which my young friend has asked for, in which request ho has been kindly joined by your honor and the entire company. 'It was if I remomber right, in the winter of 1806-7, or 18tt7 8, I'll not be sure wtyich—but no matter, it was ono time or the other—I found myselrin B., which then was a new and activo mining camp, and is now, though no longer new, still active. The mad in the town, owing to tho late rains, tiie starring people and newly broken earth, was disagreeably deep. I met JobnsOn. 'Johnse,' said I, 'what are you on, an' where are you bound for?' 'I'm oil the prospect,' says ho, 'and I'm bound for Iteveille.' "'How?' says I. "'Inn wagon,' says he.* "'When?'says I. t*

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'To-morrow,' says he. "•I'll go ^itl^vou 'says1. 'It a whack,' says he. 'So next morning wo harnessed up his two little mules to alight wagon and started through tho mud.' "'Heavy rolling in tho mud, I suppose?' askod the judge, very politely. 'Very much so, indeed,' I responded, about as politely. 'Jolinse's team was willing, but it was Bmall, and though that wagon had nothing in it but our blanketa and two or three hundred pounds of grub, etc., wo wero all day and until midnight going sixteen miles and when wo camped the old snow was so deep and crusted that the little mules wouldn't move another step—so thore we hung up, in tho deep snow.' *IIow far did you say that was from where you started?' asked a member, who seemed to be takiu' notes in the fly-leaves of a book. l4 "'Aboutsixteen miles.' 'Mules are no better in the snow than in the mud,' said the judge, with his little black eyes twinklin' at uie. 'About tho same. Well, wo staid there till morning—mules not a thing to oat but a lick or two of llour, and we a bite of raw fat bacon. In the morning, however, tbe night-frost having left the snow crusted, wo rolled out on solid footing. In about two hours wo got to some good grazing and water, and camped, to let tho animals feod and to cook something for ourselves. Then we rolled along in first-rate style to another camp at A. Afrer we got out of that snow we had no troublo with anything that day but the dust.' 'Dust!' exclaimed the judge, drawin' his .chair up closer to me, and glowin' upon mo with admiration. 'Yos. Johnso did not feel very well, so he lay down in tho wagon-box—it was a common light dead-axo wagon— with his head, to ward tho tail-board. I was driving, and after awhile I looked back over my shoulder, aud there was old Johnso fast asleep on tho flat of his back, and tho two hind-wheels of the wagwn just rolling tho dust into his face.' '"Heavy dust?' from the judge. 'Yes tho dust was piling on to hina. Each side of his noso was all filled up level with his eyebrows—all smooth.' •"Singular country!' remarked tho judge*. •"Most remarkab:e clitnato on earth,' savs I. 'One would think so,' said the feller who was takln' notes. 'Well, we staid all night at H., and next morning we started by the valley trail for Reveille, Intending to get there that night—but we didn't make it.' •Why so? more mud?' asked tho

».o, no more mud but about noon the sun eamo down so hot that the little mules fairly melted on their feet, and there was no go In thom—so we hung up for tho night at the Springe.' 'How fhr were you from B., at tbe Springs asked the feller who was takin' no ton.

Let me see,' says I 'thirty-four an' twenty-four is fifty-eight—yea, fiftyeight miles.' 'The next day you proceeded to Reveille?' queried the judge. 'O, no. That night they brought an ox-driver Into camp, with bis foot froBen/ "•FYoaen!' shouted a memner who bad not spoken before. 'Yes, air frosen, and badly froaen. And they were still freezing by the fire, after he was brought in—because a freeze continues till tbe thaw aeta in, and tbe thaw does not set in until the beat haa time to penetrate and when you are lying before a fire out of doom, in a cold bright starlit night, one side chills about as fast as the other thaws.'

Yea, that's true,' said the judge— 'when a rnau is lying out.' I thought he put a curious little oaaver on tne last word but one o' that remark, but it was so alight I passed it by an' went on with my story. "•Yes, gentlemen, feet that have been trsmping in tbe wwt snow all day ftoeaft very suddenly, in the change of usmpcrature whidi takes place aa tbe sun is going down, In high altitudes. And when a boot and eoek once become like •olid ice tbe iig i* up. There is no more motion for the foot, which damps lifelessly and helpless at tbe end of the leg. A casing of cast metal is not more immovably fitted to that which it surrounds than is a frown boot to a freesing foot. You might as well pull at one of tbe bronae boots on the fatoe of Jackson, aa attempt to draw *uch a boot. The poor fellow, in this case, baying become conscious, aa ho clumped about t! desert In ft so-« hunting his catV-, that his wer- I eaing. tried I draw his boots, tben to rip them off then, aa the twilight settled into the steely oold starlight, he aet bimaelf down and trird to whittle them off. Ilka the bark from a tr«e and when found, be had whittled tbe akin, and the flash, and the nerves, and the tendona, till tbe chips of leather, with the white bloodtern flesh adhering to their concave rides, lay about him on the anow, like ua-

skillfully shaven chips firona aome young whito-wooded trae, and 'My God! «r, stop!' roared the

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•Ad Into the ml mil of his hands. I Mopped, Seeirift the teriible amotion of Judge Ejpfcraim Shadwell, aome member moved,'That wa do now take a drink, and adjourn.' Seconded. "While the drinks were being served, the Judgo recovered, and said to me: 'My dear friend, permit me to thank vou for tbia evening's entertainment, ana to assure yon, air, that I have never met your equal I formerly flattered myself that I oould do something in that line, but hereafter I shall feel that, even to my special field, tho honora have taken tbo advico of the late Mr. Greeley, and gone West.'

I thanked the judge for hla spoken oomplimenta, but webater'a Unabridged, soaked in Loe Angeles honey, never could pan out a speech equal to thanking him for the admiring radiation that shone from hia face." '•Didn't be bev no daughters?" asked a rough miner. "I'd haT married into that family, aome way or other, ef I'd ha' been you I—married the old man, ef I couldn't done no better."

To this sneer our hero did not, by face or words, condescend to express any rejoinder, bnt continued his narration.

While wo were drinkin'an' adjournin', tho member who took notes stood alongside o' me, and asked me how far it was from the mud to the snow, from the snow to the dust, from the dust to tho hot placo in tba valley, an' from the hot placo to where tho ox-driver frote his feet an' when I told him it was all Inside one day's drive, with a good span o' horses, he drew along breath an' shook bis head, sayin' slowly, 'Wonderful climate! wonderful climate!'

We all went home from that club, an I flattered myself, for about two weeks, that I waa just the old he school-marm abroad, enfightenin' the-poople.

Finally, I was ready, packed up, to return to this coast, an'just aa I had bid farewell to all my relations, an' was get tin' on the cars, the hotel-clerk where I roosted handed mo this document."

Here he drew from his breast coatpocket along envelope, and slowly passed it over to tho foroman, tho contents of which, on being road aloud, proved to be as follows:

SPECIAL LITERARY CLUB. 'M DEPARTMENT OF ARTISTIC LYING. '•This certificate bears witness to whom It may con corn, to the full effect that in tbo above department, J. H. S., a native of the State of Illinois, recently a resident of California, and now a citizen of the State of Nevada, has so eminently distinguished himself, at a single session of this Club, that ho has been unanimously elected an Honorary Member of tho Club.

EPITRAIM SHADWRI.L, President. JOHN Cooi., Secretaiy." It's a certificate for fine lyin'!" said sevoral voices. "That's what's the matter, an' you boys know that I wasn't lyin'l"

Of course you wasn't! I've had my toes frosted on the same day that my nose was peeled with a sun-burn," said

0n"

An' I saw John Beard, at old White Pine, when he'd whittled his boots off and parts o' his feet. That was in 1800," shouted another.

Bar-keop, dish it up. BoysJ nominate tho poisons. Ignorance is a local crime, and people who haved't traveled live in darkness. But the next time any man hero present proposes to sell tho truth, I just want him to remember that I got this paper from the highest ornaments of an enliglitenod community, as a reward for telling the FnozKN TROTH."

UNCI. EA NLI NESS OF LAS SENORAS. I Correspondence of the London Standard.]

Those of 3T0ur readers who havo traveled in Spain have certainly remarked the dirty stripes on tho neck of tho lovolysenoras no devout Spanish woman dare to bathe without tho permission of her confessor. This aversion to cleanliness has come forward from tbe time of the anchorites Sabinus, Pachominus, Bcsarion, and other saints of the desert, and indeed whole sects of that epoch condemned all ablutions as heathenish, and were landed because they wore their clothes so long that they rotted to pieces and fell off them, or because their skins became as "pumice stone" from tho crust of dirt on it. The superstition that cleansing the body soils the soul exists this day, among the women of those Christian nations, who have long carried on conflicts with the Mohammedans, on whom the Koran enjoins frequent ablutions. A femalo Bulgarian is permittod to wash only once In her life—on tho day before her wedding and In most South Sclavonlan families tbe girls are rarely allowed to bathe, the women never. I recall with a shudder the Interior of the Montenegriahuta. When a woman offered me wine she always dipped her fingers Into it, tbe same finger which had juat been engaged in tbe cbaae on her children's heada, or which had been gently scratching the pig, the pet of the ftunily, which la always addressed by endearing namea. The adults squat or lie dawn, tbe children tumble about in tbe liquid manure which covers the floor of the hut, and many women are blear-eyed in oonsequenoe of the craoaoto caused by the smoke, which can only escape through the door. Tbo Princess Mllena, as I have said, forms an exception.

STARVATION LOGIC (From the Heading, Pa., Eagle.] Several days ago a woman was "informed by tbe chief of police that her boy bad been arrested for stealing coal. In reply the mother said "I try to ralso my children in a christian like manner. As far ss I can they shall be raised honestly. I do not tell them to

All the stealing that is to bo

done I will do. If I am In want of coal and bave not tbe money to buy It I will g» and ask for a bucket. Then If It is refused to me I will go to the pile in the coal yard sod take a bucketful, and aay no more about It. I must have coal, and when I bave not got tbe money to pay for It, bow else am I to get It? It will not walk to me, hence I must get it the beat way I can. But my children, I try to raise them without teaching them to steal."

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OBSERVATION OF A WOMAN. The foot la the point of departure for tho whole toilet. She who can prettily dreas her feet is very easy to costume elegantly, but a woman who dreads to expom her feet can never be well attired. The Oerman, who baa generally big feet la always badly dresoed. Tbe American ban a little foot, ao she is ele-

rravfaihingly

nt. Tt a Randan, who 1* not pretty, attired, for sho baa little feet, Tbo Spaniard la elegant, her foot is small, but she dresses it badly. The French woman has a little foot, and her boot is the height of perfection.

Ir you fall Into mischief, dlaetttsge yourself as well aa you can. Creep through the bttahes that have tbe fewest briars.

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