Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 6, Number 24, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 December 1875 — Page 1

Vol. 6.—No. 24.

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THK PEOPLE.

SECOND EDITION. Town-Talk.

nEBPOXSlVK.

Tbo publication of Deacon Ryoe'a card in Thursday's Gazette seems to make it neeesaary that T. T. should again refer to in altera connected with the so-called "sacrod concert" held at the Opera House last Sunday evening. He is very much disinclined to do this and donbts the propriety of Deacon Ryce's forcing It opon him. However, be will my what Is necessary to be aaid, in aa few worda a* possible, and with all seriousness and ho hopes that no one will misconstrue the motive

Now la the first place T. T. would like to make it clear to all who may chance to read tbia article that "Town Talk" la intended to be what ita name implies—a reflection of the talk of the town. Not of the tattle of silly boys aod girls, nor potty gomip of idle men and women, but the earnest, thoughtful talk of earnest and couaeienUoua people. Who the writer of "Town Talk" may be, or what be may be, ia not of the least oonsequenoe ao long aa his department ia what It represents Itself—town talk. It may frequently happen that a matter which the papers, for reasons of a personal nature, studiously refrain from mentioning, la a current and much discussed subject of town talk. It happened ao in Mr. Ryoe's case. Here waa a man occupying a prominent position in a prominent church, bringing a popular concert troupe to perform In a public place of amusement on Sunday night, and that In the midst of a religious revival in which almost the entire city waa Interested. Public sentiment was against Sunday night amusements of any kind at such a time, and church people especially, looked upon it as little less than an outrago for a man like Deacon Rye© to propose such a thing. It mattered not that the company was one of the best of its class, or that the entertainment was to be what Is popularly termed unexceptionable In character. It was of small use to tell them he had made tho contract with the troupe weeks before tho revival waa thought of, and that ho ceuld not get out of it now without pecuniary loss. They saw only the Inconsistency of a man of his character and standing running a Sunday night concert a* a business enterprise, ant) condemned it unstintedly and In tho severest terms. The city papers were all familiar with these facts. They saw the Inconsistency. Tbey knew that Deacon Ryce was making a mistake yet not one ol them would say so, or say anything, because—it was Deacon Ryce. T. T. holding it his duty to speak freely whenever tho occasion seems to require it, did so speak, and he will loave it to the candid judgment of all the people in tbia olty who wore cognisant of the facta, if the publication of all that really waa town talk would not be ten times more severe than anything bo has yet said ia The Mall. Further, he holds that he bad the right to apeak. Whenever an Individual, no matter bow great and good, place* himself In a false position before the publlo, and appeals to that publlo to suataln him in a thing It deems wrong In principle and mischievous In tendency, be make* of himself a legitimate object of oritlciam, and moat expect it.

Personally T. T. has a very high regmrxl far Deacon Ryoo. He would go a long distance out of hla way to do him a service (aa he baa done more than onoe) and he has no disposition under Heaven to do him the very least Injury. He know* him to be in many respects a moxt excellent dtlxen, and while there may bo hundreds as good, he doubts very tuueh that there are many better. 8U1I, he baa his little fellings sa other men have, and when bedoeaa foolish thing the town will talk. Be made a mistake in tbia ooocert MSM sad be might a* well aeknowled^b It first as last. That his oonsdonoe ia not easy respecting it, is plain to the most careless observer. That Is why the Tbwn Talk of last week hurts. It la not simply beoao»e be and hla "sacred concert" were ridiculed, but because they deserved to be. That and the knowledge that he might have saved money, credit, and evcrythlng,by postponing hla engagement 4 with the concert troupe and paying them to put the three nights la somewhere else, are the things that rankle.

The additional toet may, too, have dawned upon him that be placed the price of admission an reasonably high and that thai kept numbers of people away. However he may view It aome ghoet of a regret arisca to mako Mm wish he hsd 1st alone.

Ry and by he will regret the pub)lea* Uen

the card in the ttaaetta—ir Indeed

be doea notirsady regret it. One ean oasily see from the Intemperate language »eed In the flrat part of the card that be wrote It in the best of pasatoo, but It Is equally dear that his good sense had gotten the better of his wrath before be

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hsd It published. Ooe can imagine him carrying it sboul with him day after day, from Saturday till Tburtday afternoon, his anger gradually subsiding, bis Indignation wearing Itself away, until finally, at the last moment before leaving it for publication, he aelxes pen snd adds that concluding paragraph which T. T.. taking in tho spirit of Christian forgiveness which It was meant, accepts as an ample apology. He forgives tlie Deacon freely and fully, and assures him that hereafter everything between them shall be as though nothing bad over happened.

As to the propriety of a man occupying his position in society and the church, lending his influence iu favor of Sunday night amusements, even though tbey may by courtesy be called sacred," be will say nothing further. That Is a matter that may safely be left tor Deacon Ryce to settle with his own conscience. T. T. must be allowed to say, however, that he is sincerely gratified that the Deaoon does not attempt to defend his conduct In this respect. He congratulates him upon the fact, and trusts thst the omission may be taken as an evidence of his having abandoned the dangerous heresy.

Incidentals.

JfOMBKB

ONB."

Perhaps you have noticed that large audience* are good places In which to read human character in dltferent phases. I think a good many could not help but have read very clearly one trait of many people, In Dowling Hall during the last two weeks, In the Y. M. C. A. meetings. That trait is selfishness. I may be wrong, but I think it is a good place in which to detect the man or boy In whose breast the first and only regard is for "Number One."

Watch him a» he enters. Ho walk* into the lsrge audience room as if he were entering a barn in which thore were not even any horses that could be disturbed. The poople are all listening intently to the voice of the speaker. In each mind the chain of his argument is being woven link by'liak

his words

coine to them. Suddenly a confused clattoring la heard outside, coming rapIdly nearer and louder. He is Number One rushing up the steps. The door Jumps—that's tho word—as if it had been kicked from the other side. In ho comes, those heels sounding bump, bump, to bis very seat, and even then generally giving a few farewell thumps against tho floor or his neighbor's chair by way of finishing up the business, and announcing that people may go on listening again.

Now, it is quite evident that this man don't know ho has disturbed a hundred fellow beings. If any one were to tell him so he would be surprised and indignaut. I11 fact, he don't think at all about It. In his mind ho has corno iu, and that is all there is of it.

Watch another man as ho enters. You must watch hitn, or you will not know that he ia there. The door swings nicely open, with only a slight rattle. You don't hear blm outaido until It does so. He may be wearing great "stogie*," yet the edges of bis feet come down as softly aa If be were a baby walking with rubbers. Aa soon as be Is within be looks straight at the stage, to see what ta going on. Tbia other man doea not think of such a thing until ho Is seated, but Instinctively glances around to sea* If Number One Is to be provided for. But our easy-stepping friend is unselfish. Almost before you know It be has dropped quietly into the crowd, and bis entrance ha* not been noticed by half a doaen people. That's the man for o». That Is the one wham I could trust as a friend with my character or my money. Yet this same man, on entering the empty barn, where there la no one to be disturbed, would walk Just as noisily aa NnuiberOne and on the street he puts bis foot down Just as squarely and honestly. This Is not breeding, it is nature—inherent difference between tliem.

Again, Number One to the man who oougha and suaeasa snd blows bis noae with a prolonged splutter, Just when he foals like it, without that attempt at suffocating the sound or waiting till the speaker comes to a au^e, which this other man obnerve*. Number One Is be who In walking Main street tramps equaraly along In the middle ol the pavement as If there war* no other pedestrian on the whole street and whea aome one bumpa hla elbow (be always walk* through a crowd with hands in pockets snd elbows protruding) he Is highly offended at the "awkwardness" of the other. Nufnber One Is be or she who stands In the door at the depot or porfoffic*, ss if there were no other spot in tho county that accommodated him so well. He loo Is the one who In masting a friend on the atreat stands right In the middle of the pavement. In driving, he gives the road to BO

o*e. He halt* his team on the coming. It Is "Number One" everywhere, OMIVWMM O

follow men.

Husks and Nubbins.

fty, $ No. 1U7. A COSTLY VICE. We have often thought that if tho |**oplc who have so much gonius for making temperance spaoches would occasionally descend from the high tragedy tbey universally deal In to tho prosy com men sense offsets and figures and presont tho subject in tho phase of a problem of"political economy they might perhaps aoooinplUh more marked results than they do. Certainly every sensible, thoughtful person Is ready to admit that dram-drinking la a vice and a crime which no temperance orator ever yet painted In colors too black, or ever will, but very few of these people know such facts as these: that the amount of money expended for liquor In a single year In the state of New York was one hundred and six million dollar*—a surp equal to two-thirds of the aggregate amount of wages paid to all laborers in agriculturo and manufactures in that state or that the liquor expenditure of Pennsylvania for a year is equal to onethird of the entire agricultural product of the state or that In the whole Unltea States sbont six hundred million dollars are paid into tbo coffers of the saloonkeepers every year—a sum which In five years would pay off the national debt. If the Congress just assembled would enact a law that the entire national debt should be paid off within ten years everybody would exclaim that the country would be bankrupted and ruined. Yet in that period of time the nation will pay double the amount of the debt for the ruinous vice of intemperance. When one is brought to confront figures like theso and endeavors to measure and grasp tkem there will be a deeper impression made upon his mind than the fervid rhetoric and Impassioned recitation of the professional temperance orators can produco. If ever dramdrinklng ceases and the liquor saloons are shut up it will be because the peeplo are lifted by education above this degrading vice and such education can be wrought only by Intelligent and convincing argument.

A OT.EAM

MAK.

TH* revival, the school exhibition and the I libera Icon will draw heavily lima home firtwMes to-night. 3

The fashion correspondents arc in' ecetacies over tho sensiblo and comfortable charactcr of ladles' wear for the present winter. Wasp waists, they assure vis, aro no longer admired and consequently lacing has gone Into a decline. Trains are prohibited on tho streets and thick kid boots have supplanted the traditional paper-soled shoe. Fur.llnrd cloaks, fur trimmings and warm street suits prevail. Tho girls wear long thick woolen walking-coats,. trimmed with fur, the children are clad in fur hoods and carry inufts and even the boys woar thick woolen hose. Fur and feathers aro as abundant n* they are among the Arapahoes and Modocs and to make the resemblance stronger, the war paint of the latter is perhaps rivaled by paint of another kind—but this last item is only matter of conjecture, tho fashion wrlteis omitting It entirely.

It is certainly very agreeable to read of those reforms in women's and children's garments. 11 awakens a bojte that the berolo effort* of the apostles of health have not been utterly In vain after all and that a ray of reason has at last illumined the American woman's mind touching a subject hitherto wholly excluded from tfje domains of reason. "If it could only last," one is led to exclaim. Bat last It cannot for Just as surely as the American woman shall oacilate from hoop* to "tied-backs" and from "tied-backs" to hoops again, so surely will the thick-aoled boot* and far-1 nod cloaks of to-day giv* place In due time to the death-Inviting slippers and health defying dresses which tbey have for a time supplanted. History repents Itself, It Is said, and It 1s certain that the fashions do. Everything move* In circle*. The virtue of one age prefigures the vie* of the next. Tbo pendulum of humanity swings from extreme to extreme. It la woolen and fur and thick boot* to-day aod to-morrow it I* "wasp-waist*," bars necks, and cotton gaiters. And so the ecstasies of the fkshlon writers both please us and make us sad.^.-vs# 0$, nyvrAtiT.1

An eastern literary Journal lament* the lack of sympathy and fraternity wbleh exist* among Amerioan ss compared with foreign author*. In Parts and London the literary men foal kindly toward and assist each other la many ways, but in this country every one, to tow a vulgarism, "grxm It alone" and our writers feel cold and Jealous towards e*ch other. The same want of aymp* thy exists everywhere la American society. There la a singular coldness and exclusive**** about oa. There are In every community congenial spirits who could be very helpful to ard happy In each other If they would only consent to find each other out and meet together, hut this, for aome strange am! unac|la countable reasons they will not do. Each wraps his vkmk of isolation round him and goes hi* solitary way alone, misaing half the hspplneae of life by not sharing It with hla follows. W« hangar for sympathy and 00 ta onion and coald

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11. 1875. Price Five Cents

have It without coat or effort yet, with few exceptions, we do not have it. Why this ia so is a ppzzle not easily aolved. It must be owing to some false dignity which holds us alof from each other through an absurd fear that we shall sacrifice our self-rospoct In making advances which perhaps might be mi«understood, and rebuffed. Wo have learned to aggregate ourselvea into political and religious societies but have yot to learn the art of forming those closor kinships of appreciation and sympathy which are the llower of the finest civilisation. By and by, perhaps, when we have progressed for some years longer, we will be able to throw off the maalca we now wear and open our hearts to tho few who can and ought to know u* as we are and then life will take on a new xost for us.

Shows Show People.

Amusement managers, unluss they have a big thing, and a very big ono, make a great mistake when tbey place tho prico of tho best seata In our Opera House at one dollar, Seventy-five cents is about all the regular amusement-goer will stand, and indeed the Hey wood Combination last week demonstrated that the popular heart is touched with fifty cent*. Come down, Mr. Managers, come down, if you want to take any Terre Haute wealth away with you.

To-night the olty schools will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the admission of Indiana into the Union, with an entertainment at the Opera House. The object is to raise money to properly represent the Indiana schools at the Centennial exhibition. This Is worthy of the fullest patronage on the part of our people. However, there need be no fear in this respect. The interesting programme prepared and the very reasonable price of admission—only twenty-five cents— will fill the house to its utmost capacity.

Beyond all manner of doubt tho worst dramatio performance—or rathor the most terribly butchered character ever presented in the Opera House was that of Damon, at the handsof T. S. Holland, with the Selden Irwin company, vrho playod Damon and Pythias here on Thursday evening, and why I10 should have been cast for tho character it if* difficult to imagine. Wo have seen the negro minstrels burlesque tho scene with Lucullus, but he out-burlesqued tho burlesque. The Selden Irwin company is very fnir In corned3', and we advise it to stick to this line of business. Wtioiutragedy is burlesqued wo ptefcr to have it undercover of burnt cork.

Bryant's Minstrels will, on Thursday evening of next woek, make glad the hearts of tho great mass of oar people, who delight In burnt cork, and it is one of tho best organizations qn tho road. It is with this company that the favorite Lew Benedict—so long tho big feature of Duprez A Benedict's minstrels—has cast his fortunes. Harry Stanwood is also with them. So are J. V. Kreeth and Welling Bro».( of the California Quartette, all old favorites, together with some new face* that go to mako up a programme that will certainly tickle the palate of our peoplo. They come with very high endorsement* of the pros* along tbe route.

IT seem* that the people of Mattoon •till bold in kind remembrano* tbe visit of amateur vocalist* of thl* city, who went over there and rendered the opera of the "Hay-Maker*," and now they are going to return the oompliment. Mr. Ed. A. Tbleleus was In the city tbi* week to announce that on Tmalay evening of next week, onder the lead of Mr. Wm. H. Stanley, late of the Kellogg Engliah Opera Troupe, tbe amateur vocalist* of Mattoon, aome sixty In nnmber will render at the Open} House, In thl* city, the romantic operatic cantata of Esther. Thl* musical composition 1* founded on the Bible atory of Bother, and will be rendered In a manner never before approached In thl* olty. Mr.

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Alahuler, well and popularly

known aa a former roaldent of Terre Haute, will take the part of the King, and the principal characters will be aa•unaed by the beat musical talent of our •later city. Of Mr. Stanley tbe leader her* Is some mention: (tax* th*

TUAEA,

August

Chicago Daflr aKh, imj

Tbe singing of Mr. W. II. Stanley, the fine tenor who has lately aettled here, was most enjoyable feature of tbe concert, aad be rendered his principal number— Kucken's "Heaven Hath Shod a Tear,"—(with violin obiigato by Prof. IteCtarqee), in beaatifal style. His voice is of unusual range and rwij pore and fall In its quality of tone justice to hts work, creating an excellent inprataloa Ifrm* the Chln# Dattr Trfbaa*, J«M 13U». 1*7*.

Tbe musical event of tbi* week was Mr. 8. O Pratt's farewell concert. Tbe procram me was mainly eompmed of •election* from hU opera of Lucy and Antonio, Mr. ftanley's appearance was virtually the ftr*t he has made fa a public concert this city, and although, as w# have Mid, hi* number was a most ungrateful one. still b« developed ia its execution a quality and compass of voice, and a method singing, which were Admirable, and which will mere th* anbiie fu knowing 1 fa

increase the nleas*ire of that he Intends

to make Chicago his futore

lAn old-time Sohool at the OPERA HOUSE to-night.

Now "the Boas" Orphans are coming. Coming ono week from to-night. No drama ha* ever had such a run In this country as tbe emotional play of the "Two Orphans." Tbo Rankin* have played both versions here. The Irwin party played at it, and now tho Furbish Fifth Avenue Company, tbe same that played "Divorce" will come next Saturday evening and give tbo original version—the same that McKee Rankin has been eqjolned from playing. Thoee who have seen tbe "Two Orphans" plsyed by other companies will want to see it in the hands of tbe masters, and thoso who have not ahould by no means miss this occasion of seeing a masterly performance of the greatest drama of the day. In tbe arangement of the cast Mr. B. C. Porter 1* not obliged to appear, and ia thus enabled to give his entire attention to tbo movement of the play, the arrangement of the scenery, and all those little details which go to make up a perfect performance. Geo. C. Boniface, tbe leading man, personates "Do Vaudrey," M. W. Lefflngwell, a new man, has been engaged solely for hi* fitness for "Jacques," Frank Evans is said to be fine ss "Pierre," the cripple, and there is Harry Hawk, tbe "Templeton Jitt," of "Divorce," who is simply immense as "Pioard," tbo valet. Of tbe ladles, our people who have seen Divoroe, well know tho strong force of this company. The two orphans are represented by Mis* Georgie Langley and Miss Dolly Pike- and six other ladies appear in the cast.

Tne saie of seals will oommonoe on Thursday.

THKRB

is to be a fair and festival at

St. Mary's for the benent of the Institute next Monday and Tuesday evenings. A fine horse, silver cake basket and other articles will be gambled for. Church people politely speak of it as "raffling." "f S»J

We find this item in the Waahington correspondence ol the New York Graphic:

The son of the distinguished orator, Dan Voorhoes, of Indiana, contemplates making tho stage his profession. His dramatic talent Is considered by thoso who knew him best to bo of no common order. Mr. Voorhee* has organized an amateur company in his nativo city, Torre Haute, Ind., has drilled its members himself, and has been traveling through Indiana giving theatrical representations, meeting everywhere with great succoss. His favorite role is let.

A11 actor who did not like to bo tanen for a "supe" is told about by tho Louisvillo ledger as follows:- Mr. John Marblo, who is now playing at Macauley's Theater, isquite a wag in his way. Yesterday, while at dinner, at one of the principal hotels, a waiter approached him and gently asked, "soup sir?" "What's that?" demanded tho actor. "Snip, sir?" reiterated tho waiter. "No, sir—comedian 1" was the dignified answer, which "set the table in a roar

Mr*. Sooft-Slddons gave a Cambridge audience a decided hit, after they had laughed o%-er the story in verse of the Funny Auction. Sho said: "I wss told when I consented to come to Cambridge that I must read a good deal of Shakspere, for Cambridge people were classical, and Shakspere, Shakapere they must have. Now you haven't applauded a bit In the course of all my selections from the greatest author tbe world ever knew, but you have plenty of spplause for the uonaen*lcal piece I read about tbe eelllng of a lot of old bachelor* to a lot of old maid*." They applauded tbe next Shaksperean selection lustily.

Tbe Cincinnati Saturday Nlgbt tells us thst some Boston gentlemen of prominence, at a dinner party give%la*t week to John T. Raymond, ("Col. Sellers") oonceived tbe idea of appearing Jurymen In tbe court scene of tbe Gilded Age, which they did that evening to tbe great dellgbt of their friend*. Thl* will be opled, of oouree, snd the good featured "Col. Sellers" will receive similar offer* from "gentlemen of prominenoe" In other plaoe*. The itching to get on the stage Is not confined to *tage-*trnok boy* and romantic misses. During the spelling mania, last winter we saw how ready our solid men were to have tbeir names enrolled "to spell In public on the stage 5" and bow they frisked and ambled about, and prepared little Joke* to make tbe crowd laugh, even the moat grave and staid putting an antic disposition on and endeavoring to "abow-ofT* In some manner. It I* human nature. Wo would all be acton if we oould. Tbia thing wont atop with prominent dtix*o* 00 OoL Sellers' Jury. Probably p, e's. will beat Age Jefferson to let them come on as Hendrick Hudson aod bis ghostly crew up. among tbe Catakllla. Tbey would have 00 line* to speak, and the most timid would foal *afo In hi* spectral disguise. Barrett will he overwhelmed with application* from solid men who want to take part In the danea which eondnde* Rosedsle notable HUsen*, of the *trlcteat sobriety, will torn up ready to take the part* of tbe "Mayor" and the •Judge" In Chanftau'a

Arkansas Traveler, *nd Booth may receive a pfofpM»tfr*n Crnta some nntn«kull to personate tbe tfknll of Yortck.

Feminitems.

Woman suffrage Is remarkably quiescent. Frizzes are not aq becoming on a low forehead.

To dress as some folks do, I say it's a sin and a shame. (A woman wrote this.) A Pennsylvania girl rises daily at 4 o'clock a. m., milks thirteen cows, snd prepares breakfast for the family. She doesn't wear a pull-back.

Theie are only two female cab-drivers in New York, but to hear them yelling "G'out the way, there I" one would think there waa a hundred or moro.

To make a fashionable muff, cover an ordinary size tumbler with cloth or velvet, and put fur or satin bows oa tbe odgos. Put one thumb in, and let yetir arm bsng as if broken.

Oh thoso women! Concealed in tbo. skirts of one of them arrested by thel Custom-bouse officers the other dsy at St. Albans, Vermont, were found 4COyards of smuggled blsck silk.

The proper behaved little girl who W sfiraid she bss not quite got ber leeeon, may be seen on theee glorious autumn days going to school with a gigantlo red apple in ber hand tor tbe teacher.

Two women can talk to each other tke: length of a pew, wltneut being heard t~J sny man right behind or right In fron of them, and yet dearly understand each other—so wonderfully expressive is a woman's mouth,

Yesterday, tbe blush of health was upon ber cheek, and the light of a happy spirit in hr aye te-day, as she sit apart, looking as yellow as saffron, and feeling as sullen as a mud turtle, be asks her tenderly whst ails her, and she answers sharply, "Mince pie, you Idiot."

A critic says to a lady correspondent that she may dance with her son or her lady friends, but that "dancing in tho middle of a crowd, with low drosses, up to late hours, involving a good deal of apparent embradng of tbo opposito sex is thought to be objectionable in taste If: not In principle."

A lady called upon a milliner the other day to got tho charactcr of her servant. The respectable appearance of tho latter was boyond questioning. "But ia sbohonost?" asked the lady. "I am not so sure about that," replied the milliner "I have sent her to you with my bill a dozen times, and she lias never yot glvon me tho money."

None of tho congregation knew sho was crazy until she iusi.stcd upon sinking a solo when the contribution box was being passed around. Tho unfortunate sexton who attempted to remonstrate with her was nearly knocked down by the hymn book she threw at bis head, and tho pastor, when ho tried to quiet her, got a fearful blow 011 the head from her umbrella. Then tho congregation came to his aid, but tbe woman was too much for them all, and escaped from tbe church. This happened the other day in Pittaburg.

It takes a woman to repulse a traveling agent *omotlmos. In a neighboring village, tbe other d*y, a man called on Mr. C. at bis plaoe of business and wantod to sell blm a parlor-organ. Mr* C., not wiahlng to buy, to get rid of blm, referred him to hla wife. On the man'* making bis business known to the lady she aaked ulm if Mr. C. sent him to her. "Yes, ma'm," he replied. "Well, sir," said Mrs. C., "you just go back and tell him that, until he oan furnish me with something beside mackerel to eat. oan make all tbe musla that is necessary around this bouse." Tbe agent concluded be couldn't eell an organ there.

The Cburchftian tells the story of woman, but without giving her name, who became tired of life mainly employed In eating and drawing, and resolved to devote herself and hor money to a nobler purpose. At tbe cloee of the rebellion she went to a ssndy island off the Atlantic coast, where about two hundred persons were living in poverty and Ignorance, and established her home there with (he Intention of benefiting tbe inbabltanta. She began with teaching, by example, how to cultivate the land lucratively, and waa soon imitated. Next she established a school for tbe children, and afterward a church. Now the island hi a thriving region with an Industrious and moral population, the change being the work of one women.:'• .*

A bright amt "sunny-faced lady went shopping tbe other day In Boston, ss all true women do, and waa being waited upon by a young girl who, in the oouree of the brief conversation, was led to speak of Clara Loulae Kellogg, who was singing in opera at tbe time. "How do you like her singingV* ssked tbe lady. "Indeed, I never beard her," replied tho girl. "I have wanted to bear ber, but never felt as though I oould afford to do so, and tbe times are so hard now that I caonot think of it." The lady customer took a card, and, writing something, handed It to tbe girl. Tho lady waa Clars I/wise Kellogg, and tbe card waa aa order for admission for the girl. It la safe to say that Mis* Kelbtptc bad ono 1 more enthusiastic auditor for that day's shopping.