Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 6, Number 22, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 November 1875 — Page 1

Vol. 6.—No. 2 2,

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

SECOND EDITION.

(Written for The Mali.

FARM KB JOHN'S PR A YKB,

Come Jenni**, my girl. rsl«e me up in the bed And throw thr big door open wld«. Just l»-t mc look over rar acres once mors

And die as yoar gnuulQUher died.

The folk* turd to tell him bis form *u his Clod, And they've said the »mt thing agin roe, Bat none of 'em knows till he tries it him* •elf

How the sin and the sinner agree.

I lore thn old place I love my own life, A fact I don't wish to deny, And If It's sin then It's growed Into me

And there it *11 «uy till I die.

I might 'a done better, I might 'a done worms It makes little difference now I'd 'a follered my callin', whatever It was

As close as I've follered the plow. For what a man does he most do with his might

And that there wae alters my way, Ho If I've done wrong all thedays or my life, It's lime 1 was guln* away. •And ef I'm a-goln' to Hell, as they say,

There's nutbin' I'd rather obtala Than aright te hang over my land like a cunw,

Bo nuthln"ud grow there again

And so as I've laid here I made a request,' Hence me an' my acres must part, That I'm to be put In the midst of my place •1 the meadow that covers its heart.

For I'm (join' to watch ev*rjr foot o' my

fround

Heaven and Hell are aflame,

And then, when the flto dies down loft# enough, I'm goln to put In my claim. Come Jane, shot the door now, I spose I must die,

The Devil muii get what he's owed, And I'm not golnrback on a word what I've said.

I'm a-goln' to reap what I've sowed.

Town-Talk*

COUXSEL AND OH'TfSMU

T. T. is not of those—If, really, there are such—who believe the present city council either reck lean extravagant, or incompetent. In fact be doubts whether the city ha* ever been served by a more uniformly careful, conscientious, and pains-taking set of men than compose that body at the present time. None of them are brilliant men, nor accomplished debaters, nor great financier*, nor rich they are not distinguished for extraordinary ability in the management of the publio business, nor uncommon talent In legislation they may even be deficient la a proper knowledge of the conventional etiquette of legislative bodies, and sometimes fail to use perfectly faultless English thoy are not remarkable geniuses—none of them— but they are, what perhaps In the long run Is as well for the city, men of good common sense and unquestioned honesty. There never has been the faintest breath of suspicion against their official Integrity, and there never will be. Of this T. T. fool sure.

That they make mistakes occasionally cannot be denied yet who dcei no*? and are they not always prompt to rectify such mistakes when pointed out? That tbey work conscientiously, always, for what thoy believe to be the beat Interests

the dty, and pay beeomlng

regard to the expressed will of the people, there can be no doubt. The office of councilman la a thankless one. There is no pay attached to it, or next to none, and very seldom any credit. TO a man of the least refinement or delicacy of sensibilities, there can scarcely be a more exasperating, harassing, *n1 thoroughly detestable position conceived. However well he may perform hie duty, he will receive no praise tor Ut while everything under the sun that he does or does not do, will be liberally criticised and cursed by somebody or other. He is the lawful prey of every long-winded, bad-smelling, contrary old fraud in the town and a constant otyeet of oensure and abuse tor those Immortal Idiots who always know so much better how to attend to other people1* business than tbey do to their own. An angel from Heaven even If he oould be elected, which la extremely doubtful—wouklnt be able to so act in the council aa to satisfy more than one man in ten of the voters la Ms own ward. As a cooeequenoe, it follows that good men (and angele) are very beckwart abont accepting snoh a piact, aad under ordinary oUtmmstanoea can never be indoosd to do so a second time.

Having said so much that la complimentary of the council, albeit deserved, T. T. trusts that he may now be allowed to do as everybody else does, give them a little unsolicited advice. And the first thing that he would impress upon their minds is the great necessity fcr neosoarv.

Now tt must be eteerty andtMood that he is not charging them with extravagance or complaining that they upend money foolishly. The public Improvements made during the past twelve months are, almost without an excepUon, good ones and worth every cent they cost. In almost every ease, they seem to have been required by the regular and rapid growth of the city, and to have been planned and executed wttb judgment and hoocety. The appearof the streets and sidewalks and

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the general attractiveness of Terre Haute as a place to live in have been improved wonderfully, and at a comparatively email expense. "Then what are you driving at f" exclaims some one "what do you object tof" This: There have been too many improvements, considering the stringency of the times too much work done that might, at a pinch, have beon put off another year or two. We have been passing through a season of almost unexampled depression in business, snd we are by no means through with its effects yet. Taxpayers have been hard pressed to meet their private obligations and street and other improvements have, in many cases, been a great burden to them. This work snd thsse Improvements have gone on In about the same order aa In buster and better years when everybody felt prosperous. It has been a hardship to many and is therefore wrong. An individual may know that his house needs painting, that a new fence would add to tbeappearanoeof his property a parlor carpet may be desirable and a new overooat for hiuiaeif almost a necessity yet, if be 1m in debt and bard up for money to even live on, he will get along without these things till be can better afford them.

It should be the same way with the city. Sewers, engine houses, market bouses, flag-stone crossings, fire alarm telegraph, additional water privilegesall these are desirable things—but they should be gotten no faster than they can be easily paid for. Every good citizen desires to see the streets and side walks improved as rapidly as it can be judiciously done but very many people, dnrlng the past year, have been grievously put to It to pay their assessments for such work and oases have occurred within the past sixty dsys where the property itself had to be sold at a ruinous sacrifice because of the utter insbility of the! owners to" raise the money to pay such assessments. And these things are bad, very bad, and should make oouncllmen pause. If a respectable remonstranoe comes up against such work, even though it bear fewer names than the petition, it should be heeded. T. T. wool like to say more on this particular eutyect, lint must pass it in order that room may be left to speak of another matter which requires attention.

TUB CITT KXOIKKKR.

Do members of the council know how much complaint there Is of this officer, and that his retention is regarded by qui to a respectable portion of the community as an outrage T. T. does not know how much foundatiou there is for this feeling. He believes there is very little. But the fact that two engitieeni are employed at an aggregate salary of $3,200 Is, In his opinion, serious causo for dissatisfaction. When the last one was appointed it waa understood, outaide of the council at loast, that he was only engaged for certain werk which would not occupy to exceed six months. He has already been In the place more than a year and a half, and so far as T. T. can aee will remain there the balance of bis natural life, if he waits until his father gets through with his services. The council should look Into this matter and 11 it be found that one hundred dollars per month is paid oat for useless services, this expense should be lopped off.

XVMBKJtHfQ BOI78KS.

Before closing, T. T. desires to call attention to the irregular, defective, and disgraceful way In which houses are numbered In this dty, and aak the council If tbey cannot, In their wisdom, do something towards ita remedy. Not a merchant in town dare to advertise his store by Ita number No customer would ever be able to find It, except by accident, if he did. It ia not necessary to tell how No. 903 Main ia between Noa. 75 and 77, or No. 512 between 148 and ISO. The evil la apparent to all who walk the streets. The council should adopt either one plan or the other and require every hones In the city to be property numbered, and this should be done at once. Will they do it? ^g/gggBSBBKSfOSBSeSSBBS^

Husks and Nubbins.

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——A good many people have come to know now that John Howatd Payne was the author of "Home, 8weet Home." hot they know it simply as a fact without associating with It any knowledge of the life and character of the author. Tbey neither know when be llved.wbere he lived or how ho lived. To the popalar mind he la a myth, a name and nothing more. Yet John Howard Payne ww reelly a man of flesh and blood and died less than twenty-five years ago. His biography hae lately been published. He was an American and was tor some years oar ooneal at Tunis. He Is represented to have been a man of genital (in the hnasbier meaning of that term) and In bis youth gave promise of great achievement. At quite an early ag* he attained cooaiderahle ha* by hto poems bat he wanted the concentration of effort netwwary to accomplish great results, and thus failed to reach the high poaMoa which his friends predicted tor him. ills literary wortcsetabreee his Javenile and dram*Ue :u».

a deecription of Tunis, Its manners and customs, besides several minor productions. None of these works would probably be sufficient to preserve their author from oblivion but in the beautiful melody that is familiar In every household his name will be embalmed in perpetual remembrance.

Sinoe Darwin's publications on the subject of insectivorous plants much Interest hss been excited in that direction and many investigations have been carried on by others. The well known "pitcher plants" afford an excellent illustration of the Darwinian Theory of development. These curious plants, it is supposed, had at first merely the "cupping leaves," which are still met with in some varieties—that is leaves with little caps or chambers for holding wster during seasons of drouth. Files and insects would naturally come to them to drink some of them would be drowned and their bodies remain in the water and become oommingled with it and pass with the water into the plant for its nourishment by and by the plant would get an appetite for inseot food and would begin to develop methods for supplying it in due time we should have exactly what we do have, plants with curious and perfect organs for entrapping insects for the nourishment of the plant.

By the way Darwinism has received a powerful accession in the person of Richard A. Proctor, the celebrated astronomer. When be visited this oonntry two years ago he was a declared opponent of the development hypothesis he is now visiting us again and it is stated that he has become a convert to the doctrines of Darwin. He was then a Catholic he Is a Catholic no longer but has taken up the cudgels in defenoe of l^rndall and his famous Belfast speech. Liberalism seems to be in the ascendent over tho water. —r-An experiment is being made in England as to the practicability of cooperative living which deserves notice. A large house is in process of construction on the several floors of which there are to be Buites of rooms suitable for the accommodation of various sized families. The basement will be fitted up for kitchen, dining rooms, etc. There will be but one set of servants for the whole house and each family will have nothing to do but take care of their own rooms. The various occupants of the houso will not necessarily be thrown together except at meals. The management will be something similar to that of a large club. There will be officers and an executive committee, or directors, who .will be elected at stated intervals. It Is scarcely necessary to observe that the object of the scheme is to reduce the trouble, labor andexponse of living. It is hoped by this method to secure something of the present privacy of the homo circle and at the same time escape much of the care and drndgery which is the mill-stone of domestic life. It is an attempt to rednce to practice a theory long since put forth—the application of the co-operative labor system to housekeeping. The result of the experiment will be awaited with no little interest by many people on both sides of the sea.

We bear it often said that the art of oratory ia declining in the present sge and the statement Is usually accompanied with a regret for the days of Henry, Clay, Webster, *nd their historic oom peers. If by the art of oratory is meant fiery appeals to men's passions and prejudices and leud-mouthed bellowing In the highest possible key the speaker can reach, we are far from sure its decadence is any oauae for lament. There waa a time In the history of the country when the spread-eagle style of speeoh-making waa highly popular but that time is past. Hie general diffusion of knowledge and culture is feat driving that species of oratory Into the secluded retreats of the countrysebool boose and will eventually cause It to become entirely extinct. There are frequent exhibitions of it yet by certain lawyers and preachers but the popular taste is aoon disgusted with it. The only kind of oratory we need now, and In truth ever did, ia the simple, concise, Isgical statement of what the speaker bm to eay without oU|v-trep saperfloity and Adas ornamentation. He who has anything worth saying does not need to resort to sound and ftiry to make himself be heard. Simple words spoken without vehemence bat with that degree of animation which should naturally scoots pany them are sufficient for his purpose. Nothing in the speeches of Burke and Kreklne and the other celebrated orators of that age is more admirable than the aim pie nu^esty of their language, utterly devoid of theetrioal pomp their sentences have a stately Mid melodious march that la Irrastotibta. There ts no superfluity. The chain Of logic is perfect and complete. Brmf blow helps to weld anew link and link makes the chain longer and *ron$er. One cannot imagine, while rsedh* tbese speeches, that their authors bellowed them forth like bulls and pawed and sawed the air tike one of Don Quixote's wind-mills. If It Is meant that soch oratury as this has declined tt is pfola 'y true and greatly to be regretled.

TERSE HAUTE, OtD, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2J, ISIS.

People and Things.

A^ean pantry makea a tedious Sun-

Vfbat kind of an actor Is hardest to find The man who acts on the square. You can get a plain revolution in Paoama for half a dollar, and one out goring and ornamented for eeventy-flve oents.

The good and gifted Childs attributes the fecundity of his obituary muse to the fact of his having hla potatoes cooked with the tops on.

Prinoe John, of Schleging-Holstein-SandaburgGluckborg, arrived in England Tueeday. Hie reet of hla name will come over in a special oar sometime aext week.

We deaire to monlion to noisy little boys that right in the center of the hind hoofa ef every live mule there is a little lump of gold, which can be easily dug out with penknife.

A Canadian started out for a walk the other day, ia oompany with a lighted pipe and two pounds of gunpowder. However, it's toa lato to remedy the misfortune now.—[Roch. Dem. -4,

Mencure Conway has been invited to deliver his lecture on "The Devil and His Angels" in Chicago, Sunday evening next. Those Chicago people do so love to bear themselves talked about.

Grumbled a Danbury man, stumbling about In his wood-house the other night: "Axo gone, saw gone, buck broken and Chandler in the Cabinet— what's the use trying to live, any way?"

The Republican roosters which some of our Republican exchanges trotted out last week, would now be willing to give 915 each to find out whatthoy had been crowing about.—[Romeventinel

A Wisconsin editor illuftt&tes the prevailing extravagance of people now-a-days by calling attention to the oostly baby carriages in use. When he was a baby they hauled him around by the hair of his head.

This is the kind of weather that makes the dashing -yoting man wish that instead of spending a dollar and a half for that massive diamond pin last summer, he had judiciously invested it in a pair of winter drawers.

There is a pieoe of soap In Albany supposed to be one hundred years old." And It might lie around loose in the Albany Legislature and not be used for one hundred years more. Who enters there leaves soap behind.

If the people would run Longfellow for President, as Joaquin Miller wants them to, how the opposition papers would riddle his poetry. By the time they got through with him he wouldn't know himself from the cheapest verseslinger In the land.

The traditional last Thursday In November Is selected by the President for the National Thanksgiving. The last clause of the proclamation, naming the present year as the one hundredth of the Independence of the United States, though unquestionably oorrect, may start a query among the mathematical members of village debating societies.— (Tribune.

A Boston court decides that railroads can not refuse to receive tickets issued for passage In the opposite direction fhm that in which the passenger Is traveling. This ia a decision strictly in accord an co with common sense, and with the views of a number of sensible railroad managers.

A man went Into a furniture room the other day, and aat down on a woodenbottom ohalr. He Immediately aroee^nd danced and howled like the wildcat kind of dervish. The proprietor anxiously inquired If he bad an attack of any kind. "A tack!" yelled the man •«I ahould eay ao, and the confounded thing stood en ita head, tool"

Notwithstanding the law passed by Congress some years ago, the wanton deetruction of game on the Western plains continues. Gov. Thayer of Nebraska says that not long ago a party of elk murderers killed one hundred elk

and

simply took away the hides. This, he truly adds, la Indeed cruelty to animals as well ass grievous wrong to the P^P1** i*

Mrs. Btarrett, of Lawrei|aa, Kansas, propounds the interesting qiktry, "What hail wa do with our Aaaablcis V' and a fkrmer In the same propli»q«lty wants to know, "What shall we do with oar eornf" The able editor ff the Topeka (Kansas) Blade, eager to make himself useful and popular with both parties, ssya, "Let us feed oar corn to oar daughters."

We had always supposed that behind screens one eeee etrung across the fcsek end of a dressmaking eetabtlahtttnt was where they kept the wood hoar ooel scuttle, and Innocently dKmgH we etarted to go behind ooe the othef day, to spit 1 No, it wasn't a gbost, for ghosts don't yell ao, or Jump over a end of box hind a spool of thread, bet there waa enough of something behind them to keep us in the front part of the shop after this.—{Pulton Times'.

Peminitemse

Old lace is the otyeot of the latest fashionable mania, and the factories are running double time to supply the demand.

The dead rhinoceros has been stuffed at Albany. It la sad to think that only one young lady can wear it ou her bonnet.—(New York Herald.

As an offset to her pug nose a girl at Orleans, New York, promises to give her husband 920,000 in cash. And a million will cry out, Bring on your pug.!

In Wyoming the ladiee make a good living by digging angle-worms which sell for two dollars a pound. The Wyoming female is a voter, you know.

A Kansas girl says that nothing makea her so mad as to have a grasshopper crawl up and down her back just aa her lover hss come to the proposing point.

In a breach of promise ease tried in Iowa the other day the Judge said that once in four weeks was often enough for lovers to sit up and sjpark. The old rooster!

Feminine thrill. A Rapsia wife, with the help of three daughtera, made more this year raising silk than her hueband with three boys made with a farm raising wheat.

Three of the young ladiee who waited on Mrs. Sartoris have followed her example aud married—the daughter of General Sherman, Miss Sallie Frelinghuysen add Miss Dent.

The South Carolina girl who was determined to marry ah Italian count returned to her parents the other day, having grown weary of grinding said Italian count's hand-organ.

The Duchess de Rivss, who is visiting this country, is particular about her toilet sets. Iler brushes are all of the finest green ivory, adorfied with her monogram and crest in high relief.

What can I do to make you love me more askod a youth of his girl tho other day. "Buy me a ring, stop eating ouions and throw your shoulders baek when you walk," was the immediate rePJy-

A text for the ladies when tbey go to church—''Forgetting those thlbfes that are behind." And also for tramps, who are forgetting those things left bohind when the lsdies go to church and leave th« house unprotected.

To know how to keep a tidy house and well-aired apartments to know how to select the best kind of food to know how to prepare them in the best manner—these are the first things, snd every daughibr should learn them before marriage^p,^

Bessie Turner's

new

novel will be en

titled "A Woman in the Case." It has heretofore been generally believed that abe was wrapped in a sheet Instead of the pillow case, when she took that somnolent journey referred to in her testimony.

Did you ever come down stairs on Sunday morning, and ssk your wife to put a button on your wristband, but what she lifted ber eyee to heaven, and with clssped hands assured you that, when that shirt was put swsy, there was a button on it

Whether it be that female virtue is such a rarity in Franoe, or it proceed merely from a national love of spectacle, it Is certain that the curious French custom of crowning the roelere, or meet virtuous girl, is not only continued from year to year, but actually grows In the popular favor

I hadn't a chance like some boys," remarked a man in a street car* yesterdsy' as be squirted tobacco Juice over tbe straw "my flsther wss too poor to give me an education. "Bat if I bad been he," replied a lady, aashe gathered up ber skirts, "I'd have given you manners, or broke my neck la trying it."

Now dont go around with those disreputable fellows, and stay oat late, deer feel above each low businees," ssid she es be left home after tea. "Ill ksep away from the crowd a heap," he muttered as he went on "who cares If they area toughest I wonder If that woman takes me for a domestic C%arles Francis Adamat"—{Danbury News.

Miss Julia K. Smith, one of the Ola* contrary sistere, who have bseome famous through their rosistanos to tarnation without representation, Is aboat publishing a translation of the Bible, made by herself without aid. She has written ootthe Bible five times, twice from the Greek, twice from the Hebrew, and once from the Latin. This she did for her own plsasars and instruction, without a thought of publication hot abe now jbale Impelled to prove that If she eennot be trusted to elect ber own representatives, and most yield to what abe be* lieves an unjust Imposition of taxes, she can do what no one man has done. As she does not expect to be reimbursed tor ber outlay by the sale of bar translation, she take* a certain pleasure In the knowledge that soch an investment of h«r bank stock will deprive the town of Glastonbury of the taxes which are levied upon It or upon the land of the listers.

Price Five Cents

Connubialities.

The duck of a lover makes a goose of a husband. r?E Some wedding cards recently Issued bore the inscription "no presents."

Wanted, a wife that has got the stamps looks no object."—(Chicago edv't. You need no eloquent wprds with a woman who loves you—her looks say enough.

We once knew a girl who declared abe "wouldn't marry the beet roan living. And she dldnt he was tar from it.

A one-eyed San Francisco girl advertises for a husband afflicted in the same way. She don't mean to be twitted on ber deformity after the honeymoon.

The wives of Andrew, Harrison and John Friend, three brothers, living near Altamont, Maryland, have each given birth to twins within the past month.

It may be presumed that the Mr. Cod who married a Miss Fish, at Sterling, Connecticut, last weok, will be the founder of a family of Cod-Fish artstocracy!

He who marries a young woman to mold her will find that mother-in-law :v has accomplished this for life, and mother earth will oommenoe where she leaves oft—[New Orleans Timee. "Wonder if the Centennial year will be productive of marriages ?—is what we heard one young lady say to the othera few evenings sinoe. Tho one questioned seemed to think It would.

To know how to keep tidy house and well-aired apartments to know how to select the best kinds of food to know how to prepare them in tho host manner—these are the first things, and every daughter should lesm them before marriage. |f

The Rev. Charles Ffsher, of Hartford, & Cenn., has married 1,000 couples. He would have retired from the business 1 long ago, but the kissing of brides has become such a confirmed habit with him that be can't quit it without an attack of delirium tremens.—[CourierJournal.

There may be such thing as love at first light," remarked a Detroit girl aa she twisted a "friz" around the ourling iron, *'but 1 don't believe in it. There's Fred I saw him a hundred times before I loved him. In fact I shouldn't have fallen in love when I did if his father: hadn't given him that house snd lot."

A husband and wile were celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of their wedding, and when quite a little circle had gathered about them the husbsnd, with not a little self-complacency, said "Hero my wife and I have been married for twenty-five years, and in that time neither of us hss ever spoken to tho other an excited or unkiud word." '•Thunder," said the witty Dr. 1 "what a stupid time you must have had out!"

The other day when a resident of Fkst|| street went home to dinner his wife asfeed him why be sent a stranger to the house after his Sunday suit. "I didn't," be bluntly replied. "But a young man called and asid ao, and I gave him the clothes," she said. There was a painful pause, and she continued "You can" blame me." "No, I can't," be replied "but I wish you and I knew enough to| last us over night." She didn't eat any dinner, of course.—[Detroit Free Press.

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The other day an old fellow from Dels-% ware, going west an the Michigan Central train, stepped off the coach when It reached Ypatlantl, and slipped on the platform, went flat down and broke a leg. Everybody sympathised with him in hla misfortune, but he waived bis hand and replied: "It's all right no^ one to blame but myself. My old wo-| man was laid up for two yean, and now I've got a cbanoe to get even with ber. If she don't have to do some tall dusting around snd sitting up nights, then my name Isn't Jordan!"

A Vicksburg wife informed ber btts-| band, the other morning, that she was^ working herself Into the grave for tho want of a hired girl, and as be went out abe leaned back end fall to weeping. ,: The children were making a noise in the hall as be passed out, and he called oat: "Yoa want to stop this racket! Your mother wont live a week, and^ when yoa get a step-motber bere next,

she won't pat up with anyaacb| fooling!" When be came home to dinner his wife met him with a smile and said: "lent oura a coxy home, Richard, with only our own little family tolook after?"

Lovsst thou me?"asked Minnespoils swain of hia last year's girl. "Notp much I dont," waa ber emphatic reply.' "Then death is my best friend, and* here's to bis health f" spoke up tbe sighing lover, aa be drank off a bottle filled with a mixture which be supposed to be luMwUnniy, But when the emetic, which" a shrewd druggist bsd given instead of laudanum, began to work, his girl Just held his bst to save the carpet, and then dragged him oat on the doorsteps by tbe hair of his bead. He has no longer any faith In tbe vaunted tenderness of womsn*s sympathetic nature.