Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 6, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 February 1876 — Page 1

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Ta good friends of Pence's Hall liave bad a long season of uninterrupted prosperity in ghost-show basinets. The fame of Mrs. Stewart and her "angel band" has gone abroad in the land and has achieved a reputation as one of the very best materializing mediums in the country. Ttt the past two years largo numbers of people have visited Terro Haute who came for no other purpose than to see and investigate the marvelous stories that were told of her. She has given seances almost every night, and exhibitions of slate writing, Ac., from two to a half-doisen times every day. At the most of the*e seances, the majority of those present wore from abroad. Hundreds of them have gone back to their homes fully convinced of the entire truth ofspiritualisttt and that they had seen and talked with dead relatives and friends.

For Mrs. Stewart is not one of those mediums who do a thing only half way. Her ghosts are good-natured, sociable ghosts who come out of the cabinet and mix freely with the faithful. They walk around and shake hands and talk politics and beg a chew of tobacco and all that sort of thing, In the most informal and charming manner. The female ghosts frequeutly bring their knitting and knit baby stockings for fronting and hanging up in tbo seanoe room. Sometimes they le.ivo locks of their air and other souvenirs. Quite frequently they bring flowers which look as leautiful and lade as naturally as any on "this side of the river."

Of course all who havoseen these wonderful things and got acquainted with the Terre Haute ghosts, attainted in spreading Mrs. Stewart's tame. Pence's hall was in a fair way of becoming more famous than St. Peter's at Home. Pence, Hook and Connor had a good thing and appreciated it. Proprietors of ghostshows all over the country werejealons of them, and this was the beginning of trouble. They began to come on and look into things, and to "tell tales out of school." Cards began to appoar here and thoro in the newspapers pronouncing Mrs. Stewart a fraud. Hsl'

Hut tbo worst lick yet was the card 'published in the (fa/.jtto on Tuesday. This card was signed by eleven persons representing themselves to be spiritualists of the the strictest sort who had come here for purposes of investigation and who after patient inquiry had made up their minds that the whole thing was 11 fraud. Hut here is the curd

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We, tho undersigned, ltfliiig resident* of several Stall's, having bevii iutrncu*d to this city for tTIC purpose of luvrstiRiitltig HIP iruUiH of Spiritnnllxni, tut dtinon»trated by 1 ho nlli'«iMl farts of liiaterlutiKutlon, an now tranMiilririK through the mediumslilp of Mix \una8tewartof tliln city do, after a full ami careful Invert limtlon, continued •wveral days, iut farni privilege* weru itrant«ilai for cxrtinlnivtlou (no lest conditions l*cln« allowed,) unhcsitHttnaly declare to tlit* world that wo honi^tlv belJcvo the no-t-ailed niHterlHllr.nlIons to be MKKK I AHKICATIONS, dt'servtmi the condemnation of all iriM, hoiK*Mtanit enlightened InvextlitatorH. Wo i*gr»'t very louch to IH compelled to iiuiKc this statement puMlr. but tne voice of troth demand it at our hands, and we ennnot fllucli from the duty imposed.

The glorlouN truth* of SpirltiuUlain, so grandly jKirtmyed In the piist, urge to this unpleasant duty. signed by liavKl s, oridwaliler, Wilmington. Del.

Jll. I*, stuckbrldgo, fort Wayne, lnd. II. Morw, Mtnte Lecturer of lows. ^1U 1'arklDson, (Mkonh, Wis.

O. Thomas Huntington, Intl. 'W. It. KoUcr, t'lrclevlll*', tlhlo. H. Fowler, Clrclevllle, Ohio. isNelnon Ilcllcnberjrer, Oh ill toot he, Ohio.

II. Focliler. Pennsylvania. iMfrod Hnltiormnn, Tfnjrcrsiown. Jnd. l/omnel Itud.v. Hngentown.Iud. ^Nole.—Tli»^«e Inst wo gentietnen were not present at the consult at fun nntl adoption of the protest, hut sub^.-nu- iitly signed U, htiving IIIMI etjiial opportunities for InvestlgAtion. rtf coarse the above card brought out one from Mr. James Hook, and that promptly. And how da you suppose Mr. iiooK annihilated therastmls? He didn't abuxe them. He didn't call names. He didn't even say thoy hud Hod. ITe simply described them. And T. T. must say that it was one of the most convincing argument* he ever read, and be begs the reader to belleva that ho is qultejserlons in saying so. Hereafter whon T. T. wlsbe* to pulverize anylnidy he will simply describe

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But serlSttsty, ft st riken T. T. as it will strike many others who read the card of tho Investigators, that their statement would have been much stronger a»d more ^convincing if they had been kind enough to state just h^w the fraud Is managed, and whether or not Pence, Hook A Conner are autong thy ones deceived. 8-y|

Tmi Irrepressible "l*" Jtu»p#Hl in to the tight in Wed net* lay's fcasette and bonnced around like an irbrinmn in a tight at Donny Brook Fair—bitting a head wherever be could And oaft The coming man" is away in the dim Allure that wilt publish a paper to please Capt. lk. lly the way, the Captain ha* the meaHs tho ability—and tbo elegant lohrare—why den't be juivest i* warn* type ami ink, and show us what a model papershouid be? r*

A CARD FROM MR HO WR As Dr. Read has called at The Mall office to inquire who was the author of what is known as the "Dr. Bigblow" article, which appeared nearly four years ago in the T. T. column, I infer that he feels aggrieved thereby, and, being the author of that article I am bound by my offer of last week to make a "public apology or a public defense." As I cannot truthfully make an apology. I must putin a defense.

First, I desire to say that the article was not prompted by malice. I had no spite to gratify, as my casual relations with the doctor had always been of a friendly nature.

Next, I am bound to say, that the article was not written simply in sport. I hold every man's feelings too sacred to be trifled with in the way of ridiculing his ecaentricities, weaknesses, or even faults, merely for the fun of the thing. Disclaiming sincerely all malice and trifling, I will, in a manner as unobjectionable to the Doctor and his friends as I am able to command give my reasons for writing the article. 1 had long felt that the Doctor not only held, but was constantly proclaiming pubUcly, sentiments and principles, and making unwarranted assertions, which were prejudicial to the best interests of society. This he was doing with what seemed to me an assumption of wisdom and knowledge which, with many unthinking people, and especially with tho young, carried the conviction that his statements and principles were correct. It was impossible to counteract this influence by argument, lor with him there is no possibility of arguing, but only of listening. Of course the public must judge for itself whether I was oorrect in the conclusions at which I arrived. But with these opinions firmly settled in my own mind I determined to nse the power of the press, in my regular and legitimate connection with it, to counteract what I thought to be, and still think to have been, an evil influence.

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With Dr. Read in my mind, I pehned the article representing, in a fictitious character, such a man as he seemed to me to be, combining especially the traits which gave him, what I regarded, as his harmful power. My purpose was not to hold him personally up to ridicule, but by means of the article to ridicule his pretensions, and so lead peop}o to think twice before they accepted hiin, or any one with such traits, as an oracle. I was honestly surprised, to find that the original of my fictitious character, was so soou and so universally recognized and this tnoie than any thing else, made me doubt whether my article was needed.

The grounds then of my defense are, that the article is truthful in its representations, and was, as I thought, demanded by tho public good.

I am sorry to say these things, which, however little the Doctor may care for me or my opinions, cannot be pleasant to him. The responsibility for creating the necessity which calls for this card, must rest with the man who, in malice toward me, and without friendship to the Doctor, chose to rake up an affair long since dead, and to use him as a "cat's paw" to draw from The Mall office Information, of whloh he pretended to be in fall possession before, but which he did' pot have, and without which he did not dare to publish his weak testimony to prove me untruthful.

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Husks and Nubbins*

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MKltTAXTtLK DJIMORA 1,1 /.ATIOX. It is not pleasant to harp about the

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cay of virtue, the retrogression of the race and all that, because most of that kind of talk couios from the class of people popularly known a« "old fogieV' and ha* really no good foundation in fact. Yet it must seem to every candid and thoughtful observer that in a certain kind of virtue* the people of to-day havo degenerated from the standard of their ancestor*. We spoke last week of the punctuality and the univenwUty of promise-breaking In the present age. There Is another vlrtuo which we believe the gray-headed businessmen of the country will generally agree haa sadlv declined during the fast quarter of a century and that is whet, in lack of better name, wc will designate Mercantile Honor. The baaineee men of t©*dav have not, as a general thing, that unbend* ing integrity and that delicate sense of honor which permeated the eomtttereial world a generation or two ago. In those days It was something discreditable for merchant to fell and pay only a oertain |ter cent, of bis indebtedness and when be was absolutely compelled to do no and there was no help for it be at least Allied honestly and gave up to his creditors all be had. The ptactlce is widely different In tbo present time. A man break# Hp noW wittwnt any Uwn|M nf IxMf dMhoiwml and if under the convenient fiction of his wife's name, or by some other means, be roc* coeds in saving a handsome »Uee far himaalf out of hi* felling fcrtntw. though hi* creditor* go with but twtaty

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cents on the dollar, he stands higher in the community than be would, have done had he turned over all his property to his creditors and reduced himself to poverty for the man is menaured by his money not by his character.

Not long ago the writer of this had a conversation with an intelligent gentleman whoso business it is to collect debts for mercantile house*. He has epert many years in that employment which has given him many opportunities to study the characters and dispositions of business men. Ho bad just returned from an extensive tour through a wide scope of country ami this is the substancA of his story

I found," said he, "the utmost demoralization pervading the mercantile world. I never have seen anything like it. Men seem to have lost all sense of honor and integrity. They will go Into bankruptcy and pay twenty or thirty cents on the dollar when they might by honest and prudent management pay all they owe dollar for dollar. They don't seem to caro for disgrace a particle. I found concerns which were deeply in debt running on when they were actually losing money and becoming more hopelessly involved every day. I stopped a man who was going on thus and told him I would have some kind of settlement before he went any farther. He became enraged and said if it had not bet for me he would have run for six months yet that nobody suspected his condition and that his credit was still good. 'And whore would you have been at the end of the six months?' I inquired? That was no business of his he would at any rate havo had his living for six months longer, no matter if his creditors did suffer for it." l'" ,n« -r-/

I find," he continued, "men ingeniously planning and scheming to defraud their creditors. They go at it deliberately and begin months in advance to make such a disposition of their property that it cannot be reached by their ereditovs. The trouble is business men are too extravagant. While the volume of business has shrunk prodigiously and profits in proportion, the expense of living is nearly up to the war basis. Men who are actually lesing money in their business every day keep their carriage and horses and live as high almost as they did in times of the greatest prosperity. They conceal their condition from each other and pven try to conceal it from themselves, hoping that some change will come by and by that will enable them to pull through, when in fact their only salvation depends on their reducing expenses to the smallest practicable limit." "The worst of all," continued he, "is that society countenances this kind of conduct. A man who swindles his creditors suffurs no disgrace from it. As an illustration A few days ago the papers made announcement of tho fact of a gathering the evening before of a number of prominent and worthy citizens,tho names of the gentlemen and their wives being mentioned. The list embraced the name of one man who, it is very well known, not many months ago went into bankruptcy and defrauded his creditors of about $40,000! That man is just as prominent jn the church and in society to-day as he was before his dishonest failure. When society deals thus with men who deliberately swindle their creditors out of just debts am I not justified in the statement that the business world it fearfully demoralized?'

I concluded that he'Wrf entirely Justified. What is the remedy for this condition of things Obviously the restoration of the old-time honesty and integrity to trade. We must quit estimating men wholly by the araountof money they have, regardless of how they obtained it. Society must begin to make some account of virtue and honesty a* well as of filthy lucre. As long as the bokl and successful swindler Is to go unpunished and Is to outrank In sooinl standing and influence honest, Industrious and intelligent citiaens, Just so long the present rottenness and demoralization will permeate the oommercial world. Men judge their guilt by the judgment of society. As long as society ftvor* and frowns on the successful rascal there will be sucoesaftil rascals and many more unsuccessful oues, who try to follow In their footsteps #nd fell. And whenever an houast and upright mannorof living shall brin^fHtnds, inflnenee aftd honor, the reign of rascality and shttuieless dishonesty will be succeeded by that of truth and integrity.

TimFfRSTPAPElt RRAD. MaWbaH Motngir. ftainrdav Evening Mail. Is one of tbo manv wekwute papers that visits our office. The Mao ts sought after and read by all classes. It la a favorite ainong tbe old, middle aged and young. The fry Is often beard in tbo feniily circle when a toetfiber of the Cantily arrive* from the postofllce "Have you got The Mail." It is the, flnrt paper read. There would be ten tuples of that paper taken to where there Jw one now, Jf the people were better aoqu*ititad with it.

The lattttt: beg your amnesty,'*

People and Things.

Never do to-day what you can do tomorrow, seems to have upset tho other maxim.

Grant was not a playful boy talked low was courteous, and read the "Life of Napoleon."

Any fool can inherit money, or position or works of art, but none but a smart man can earn them.

The Singer heirs are decidedly of tho opinion that in the!r father's house tljere were rathor too many mansions.

The lower lip first shows signs of Intoxication. It is the lower lip which first shows signs of grief in a baby.

Chicago Times: Sun key's voice has been overstrained. He will probably go into opera-bouffo now all broken down singers do.

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Additional interest is attached to photographs by writing upon tho backs the date of taking, and the age, height and weight of the subject.

A traveling printer says that one of the Omaha editors writes his editorials on brown paper with an old dinner fork dipped in cranberry saucc.

Hamlet, according to a writer in the London Academy, was only seventeen. If that statement is true, ho was certainly what the old ladies term a "very forward boy."

An exchange announces it "will publish no anonymous communication tmless the author's name accompanies it." The sentiment is superb, and the lan-gnage-is bull-y.

The Heaald of Health says flesh meat tends to make men bold, enterprising and courageous, while vegetables render men peaceful, benevolent and virtuous. We*ll take a little of both, please.

Why," asks an exchange, "do they bury a Japanese with his head downward when he dies We really don't know, unless it is because they think that's the only proper time to do .it,— [Courier-Journal.

Dan bury News Half the people who are making this uproar over the exclusion of the Bible from the public schools couldn't tell on their own responsibility whether the book ofCienesis was written by St. Paul or Hamlet

Ma," said a young man—a dry goods e'erk, by the way, and one who parts his hair in the middle also—as he stood before the looking-glass wrestling with a shirt collar, "I shall be twenty four to-morrow, and when I reflect that I never yet had a shirt to fit me in the neck, it seems as if my life had been a failure."

An old visitor at the National Capitol says that it does not seem to him that Congress is in session at all. "Why," he declares, "when I gaae down on that murky sea of heads, and see one pop up every now and then and try tosav something, it seem9 to me as if the men bad gone home and some overgrown boys had broken in and were playing jCpngress." s® »i.

Quite an amusing experiment was tried by some young ladies on New Year's day. .An apple was suspended in the doorway which was to be taken down and given to the gentloman who called and did not allude to the weather. The apple kept its position till tho next morning, and the young girls were entirely disgusted with tholr gentlemen friends.

A New Orleans paper thus discourses: If men are the salt of the earth, women are the sugar. Salt is a necessity, sugar Is a luxury. Vicious men are the saltpetre hard stern men the rock salt nlco family men the table salt pretty girls the fino pulverised white sugai old maids are brown sugar: good-natur-od matrons the loaf sugar, and young men are loafers."

Ait* Englishman has squeezed 14,000 copies of a history of the world, since the flood, into 14,000 bottles, and had them buried In the ico somewhere in Qreenlaod. llis theory is that history repeats itself, and that the coming Captain Noah will pick up these floating waifs, and put them in the ark library as something roliabfc fur future historians to start on.

In tbo matter of klsseq, the company at the Boston Globe believe in realism, and tbo Transcript thinks the custom a little overdone in that theater. Nonsense. In the palmy days of the drama the actor who played the passive Armand to the Camille of Matilda Heron had to spend Ax dollars a week for glycerine to apply to hla forehead and nose. They spelt Matilda's klas "yump."

Frank Frayne writes to the Chicago Inter-Ocean «s follows: "In your notice of *81 Htoctun' In yesterday's paper you express a fear tint I may perhaps be so vnfoftunate as to Injure my wifj while shooting the apple from her bead by tbe backward shot. I am well aware that the shot is considered hazardous, and so it is, but I have been performing It for the last two years almost {lightly. I am a strictly tempecate man In all spects,and my aerre* an» eonsequently steady. I have never missed my mark*"

Feminitems*

A great many women die in the hope of a blessed hereafter who never return half the tea and coffee they borrow

Don't marry until you can support a husband. That's the leap year advice of the Barnstable Patriot.

They decided that Helmbold was insane because he said that 950,000 a year was -'ne too much for his wife to spend.

A Chicago Justice wouldn't believe a woman who ascribed her staggering to tbe efleet of a very ti^lit pull-back skirt.

One of the greatest mistakes common to women is to hurry. Anxiety and over-work are sure to produce sickness and restlessness of mind, whereas judgment never fails to control excitement and give victory to the battle for health and strength.

Dear me, how red your face is, Eli%a," innocently remarked a female neighbor, who had dropped in just In time to interrupt a bitter altercation between man and wife. "Yes," meokly added tbe husband, 'she's been showing her oolore."

Men are rather inclined to sneer at their wives' groaning over stair-climb-ing, but one of these chaps with a heart for statistics has figured ii out that to ascend a staircase 18 feet high requires thirty-six times the force that is required to walk 18 feet on level ground and would therefore be equal to a level walk 3 2 4 a

Oail Hamilton comes to the front again, and advises girls to look out for physical health and beauty in a husband. That's all right enough for girls up to a certain age, but after that, as Oail ver3r well knows, husbands are not to be had at a penny a grab.—[GlobeDemocrat, St. Louis. j,

When a widow presses your handan& tolls you how ?ho has mado four dozen clothes pins last her 12 years, and she drops her oyes and says a paper of pins lasts three years, and he looks up and smiles a rosy smile, how on earth is a feller to break away and leave that house aud convince himself that she loves l?im only for bis wealth

Every girl can be married this year who wants to be. If one counts all the gray horses she sees, until she has got up to a hundred, she will be married within a year, to the first gentleman with whom she shakes hands after counting the ono hundredth horse. So says tho Jefferson City Tribune, and tliat is the best authority on signs wc know of. _________

THE DAyriffiQ MAN. i-* From a recent number of the Home Journal we are able to gather a few facts concerning "the dancing man," which we believe will be relished by a majority of readers. "Ever sinco the time when 'David danced before tbo Lortl,' says tho writer, "there have been daucing men, but it is only since the era of the 'round dancefe' that these personages have become an important element of modern society and now that the season of ball and hop, and soiree dan.mute has come again, a brief inquiry into the manners and customs of thess saltatory atoms of tbe body sociable may be timely.

The various forms of what the old country-man called "tbe capering "hug" are now so firmly fixed ainpng us that it Is difficult to realise that it is scarcely forty years since this stylo of terpsichorean performance was introduced into this cotintry, though it is more than fifty since, in England, Byron apostrophized the first parent of all subsequent galops, radowas, schottlsohes ana mazurkas "Imperial waltx Imported from the Rhine, (Famed for tho growth of pedigrees ana wluc.) I-ong be thine Import from all duty free, And bock lttvlf bo less esteemed than thee."

We remember hearing an amiable dowager relate ber reminiscences of the first time she ever saw performed this wild dan*t, which seemra to her then to le tbe incarnation of every impropriety It was at a large ball given here during the winter of 1840. When the revelry was at its height, it was whis|icred about the room that a couple would dance a waltz. A sort of tmftrompttt ring was formed, and, Into this there presently stepped the reigning bello of the city and one of its raost fe vored gallants. She was a lithe and graceful young creature, with a somewhat defiant recklessness of manner ber partner was a slim and dainty exquisite. The band played a strain of one of the elder Straoss'delidoua waltzes and the two presently clasped each other in a partial embrace. For a few moments they stood thus encircled in .each other's arms, calmly defying the horrified store of two hundred eyes then, catching the time, they swayed away in tbat most graceful of all motions, the Spanish waits. From thlit moment the dancing man was an Institution. Hconas of dashing maidens were ready to ftK low la tbe steps of the gay belle, and, although prudent mammas t(OWtaed, and some of the nicest girls would not dance round dances, there wem enough who would, to make a demand for partners. Then cane the era of •\Mr. Brown's young jnen." Tbe fe-

Orace Church keston undertook to ply this demand OH the aai dpie in whi«h stolen goods are

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himself to pveduee for any given ball or of good-loo"" well-di yovng csilows, who should be unexoeptfcMMhte dsnceis and who should be "good for this night only," to be seen no more after the tall was over and their services no longer needed. This want on for some time, tho jFMrng menmak*

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ing their appearance when ordered, dancing dutifully with the girls all tbe evening, and net expecting to bo recognized the next day, which was all vory well so long as this plan was rigidly adhered to but, unluckily for its sucoesp, some of these dancing men were good* looking soft-hearted girls, after flirting with a partner all tbe evening, were not so ready to cut him next morning, and thus, it happened that one of New York's fairest daughters actually bestowed her affections on one of Mr. Brown's young men! Her horrified parents made inquiries concerning tho object of her attachment, and discovered that he was the handsome apprentice of a Cherry street tailor. From this period the original form of tho iu&titutiou fell into disrepute, and the permanent type of tbo dancing man became established, Brown's young men being to the dancIng men of the present day what a temporary structure of graceful outline*, with no reliability, is to thesolid estaklishment that finally take its place useful In its day and generation, and givlrg an opportun ty for tbo building up ox that which is to supersede it. There are ys several prominent varieties of the danc* ing man which present strongly marked characteristics. Tho commonest form is that of tbe regulation partner whe wears tight boots, has a faultless little moustsche, and sports primrosecolored gloves. The principal peculiar!ty of this species is that nil the members of it look precisely alike. Having their hair and coats and trousers all cut so exactly after the same pattern, that It is impossible for the undlsoerning eyes of mamma to distinguish one from another. To be sure', the little miss who .. dances with them seems to possess a gift iwhich enables ber to tell them apart, but the elders of tho family are perpetually confusing Brown with Jones, and

imagining that the favorite Augustus is only Jenkins. Another striking variety is tbe small man who will persist in choosing large .is girls for his partners. He perhaps dances very well himself one of New York's most famous dancing masters once said that no man over five feet six in height ever ought to.dance, and certainly on 11 light, fantastic too tbo small men have the advantage over their smaller bretl:« ren. Having their natural adaptability for appearing well on the floor, these 1% little fellows" would achieve great suecess were it not for their fatal fancy for choosing large young ladles for their companions in the dance. We re member some years ago at a Newport bail seeing a neatly-inadcfttMto dandy st( out with one of Now York's most pon* derous belles, what the fellows called a "stunning girl"—five feet eight or so, and weighing something close to two hundred. It looked a good deal of an undertaking for that small man to ende*ver to pilot her about tl^at wide ballroom. A celebrated wit, who was watching the proceeding, said to her companion. "Poor Jimmy! Ho ought to have tho prayers of the'church."

Another well marked kind is tho sc'emn variety of the dancing man. Men who execute a waltz as if it wore a funeral rite, whose countenances wear during the-whole performance an ex press!»n of the most terrible anxitetv, ^. and who would certainly be adjudged by the casual observer to bo engaged rather in a laborious duty than a clieor- f§ ful pleasure. And if one couId really read their hearts, to toll tho truth, one would find that they were deeply oppressed with a fear lest they should troad *4 on their partner's toes, or run in to somebody, or fall do.vn, or meet with some other unhappy accident. 1 imagine these fellows aro really rejoiced each time they finish a dance, ns feeling that so much of tho labor 011 hand has been successfully accomplished. A correllated variety of this type is the busy man who does not go to many balls, and who dances now just as he did twenty years ago when be was a boy and learced how. His favorite is usually the pelka, in which he finds himself most at home, and which he performs with pious regularity. Ah, dump, dump, thump! Ah, thump, dump, thump! never misting a step. His solemnity of conntenance during this ceremonial is truly prodigious. Of course the very prince and king of dancing men is ho, who by bis long labors has reached so high a degree of .perfection In his art as to be

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chosen for tbe proud position of leader of the German. It may not aeom the loftiest and noblest ambition, this, but there be many of "the curled darlings of the aristocracy" who look upon this honor as more desirable of attainment than any other earthly distinction. To fit themselves for its duties they devote their nightly energies, dancing in season aud out of season, at Oerman picnics 4 and mystertous "assembly rooms," as well as at patrician balls, giving up to ij tbe winning of perfection in this art many precious hour* of a too brief ex* istence. Onto having attained to the

airs*" thereon. Now tbat wo are on Centcuuial times, surely one of tho greatest contrasts of the hundred years is that of thedarcina rules of those old days, and,these moaern ones. Compare a squire of tho last century, attired a rojftPco'orcd cloth suit, with delicate Iftfo ruffle* at his wrists, bowing ovor lady's hand with all the grace of a Sif Charles !randisor, and leading hereto the tbe danoo as he would conduct a queen to tho throne with a mOdern beau, dressed like a bead-waitor, and poking out his arm to his partners with the easy question. "Take4 turn?" But despite a some* what supercilious manner, there is uc« d«rthis frivolous exterior a good deal of true heroism in tho dancing man. It should not be forgotten that when this republic was In ner mortal agony tbe regiments that marched first to tbe front were made up largely of danciag men. And there were heroes in that 1 war who led deadly chargcs in battle with tbe pamc coolness and grace with which, in holiday times, they had led the Qerman In brilliant ball-rooms.

A correspondent writes: "I see you den't understand what an Eistedtbdu l«,

I am aurprlsed. I thought eve remembered the definition of the Welsl^J poet, David Evans, In wirfeh besays: •Ym RI«t«lfodd wreh limp *rjr!»wcliri#

Drjw*wycld dlw llwrn mlpyddweh.* "In short, thi Eistedfbdd is Jh tb^7 Welch what the Well^mpethUcnT to the German Nation, in# altott recognised as mrh at tbe OratRMlal.

Boston Ulobe.

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