Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 6, Number 34, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 February 1876 — Page 4

HAYING

Finished their Annual Inventory and got everything in good shape for another year's biwinew,

HOBERO, .m,,liOOT & CO., Invite tbe attention of the great trading public to their first exposition of

EARLY SPRING GOODS,

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FLOITNCrNGS, EDGINGS and INSERTIONS In elegant new patterns and al extreme' Iv Low Price#.

WE CONTINUE

To sell the following popular brands of Bleached Mndin«, vii: LONSDALE, 10c.

HILL. 10c. NEW YORK MILLS, 12 l-2c. WAMSUTTA, 12 l-2c.

HOBERG.MOT&CO.,

OPEKA HOUSE.

BENTIN & ARMSTRONG, or. 6th and Jlnln slrecii

THE I'LACK TO UKT

Fare Drugs. Fiue Toilet Goods, Prescriptions,

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And the ONLY PLACE where you can get THE CLEAR HAVANA FILLED -LA PICAD USA,"

Boss 5 ccBt Cigar.

Prairie City Emporium, Among the attractions for the ladies, to day, we offer:

Additions to our superb line of Embroideries. Beautiful Crepe Lisse Rueliin*rs.

The new Tucked Collars and €uft*. ... Cashmere Nett for veils.

Cashmere Lace Ties and Bows. Kid Gloves in the desirable shades.

In 6, 4, 3,2 and 1-button. New designs in Towel imp, Corsets and everything in Notions, at

PRAIRIE CITY EMPORIUM.

Wanted.

WAJJTKIV-A

FIST-CLASS PRACTICAL

Printer,lu all the branches of the art preservative of all arts, wants a situation Jn a country office. Would not objwt to to taking an Interest in the office, providing It is pitying expense*. Address. W. C.

Care Saturday Bvening Mall.

V1TANTKD-A FARM CONTAINING

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from 150 to 300 acres. sot more than 5 miles from this elty, In trade for a store build I tig 20x80 feet, and two lota suitable for building business houses on. Said store can be rented immediately to a good paying tennant for 2 to .1 y»-ar*. Would a so trade for a smaller farm, If nearer the city. or farther particulars, addrewi P. O. Box 1802.

ANTED-ALL TO KNOW THAT THE SATURDAY EVKNINQ MAIL ha* a larger circulation, than any newspaper publish?•d In the State, outside of Indianapolis. Also that it Is carefully and thoroughly read in tbe homes of its patrons, and that it Is the very best advertising medium in Western ntAana.

Found.

r)X7?D—THAT

WITH ONE BTROKEOF

the pen you can reach, with an advertisement in the Saturday Evening Mall, almost •very reading family in this city, a* well as the residents of the towns and country surrandlng Terre Haute.

ANTHE

ORDINANCE CONCERNING REPAIRING OF SIDE*

WAi.Ks* AM) THK COLLECTION OF THE (\WT THRHKOF. Ue It ordained by the common Council of the etty *f Terre Haute: jMKiioii 1. Thai whenever the common coun of the ty of Terrr Haute cause any fidewalk oi t/» be repaired Vy the said city, at lie expense of the owner -wnr"*of the lot or JM* .ordering on sorh wiewal* o* sidewalks. -'u,h street ommfc«d it*U -cep an •m!' Mt" «w tint. 't the cost of such w,,kiT* ar.l charge ear* -.wtrrof mi'it 'f-t« i'..-.'inx.-i-.t expended In repsiMngtho

A in fr». «t «»f hit tot, and such .wner .« vivii' t.«v to M»cb eotnni --ioner, wiOMU fro®.thedate nf th* (''nipt,m.«i 1IV.- I ropairs, the asuniui so cJ v: t" lu ». rOTthem. vac 4. If s.i.at be not made sOnthe prm-dlnjr required, the rtreet ami»- ...,

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..irmw':*! ivport to the t*w»i com' ir Hi. urn- of lite owner* of such uhuaike default In such parm^t, a due frum each owner. uid a !), irt or lots owned by each r.:"i eh such tepalrs were made. KU rn .(thestreetcommissioner r.i- ti swor^ to by him before authorized to administer oath*,

•1 k'' -rl K»ith deser and see. shall some and correct, shall be *pt»rev«Hl by said council and the amounts therein stated assessed upon the •*'—1_ therein dweriW, ana tot or lot* rr*»ecwv*j- u»«nnn nwn"»Ti, the city cleric directed to tasoe to the city treaantet toMpu i»ii st the tevefal owners thereIn named, and Mich a«c*sment shall become a teu npon nwh lots from the dale theteoi

n»d

by tiifc common eomicil to be

Hee 4. Such prcerut* shall reeemMe in form na nearly as twaotioble. the pmea^ts Issued and iwed for the eoUertl«t» of a#ee«ment* /oijrtreel imworetnentx shull te stpwd by the rharer anlatteKted bv the

prescribed by the city cMuttr tor ikt collwUtwi

Sss55S to jaraer&s^

ju allowed bin l^W la of fMOepti»

or street commisrfwer uoder the this ordinance, shall tie aoCouhty te^M TMd over by them reepectively. and s^sll loto Oy genenu fund at tne city of

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JIIIIIBL Majof. JXO. TOIJJKKT.nerk.

THE MAIL

A PAPER

FOR THE

TWO EDITION®

Of tills Paper are published. The K1RST EDITION, on Friday Evening has a large circulation in the surrounding towns, where it Li sold by newsboys and agents. The SECOND EDITION, ou Saturday Evening. goes into the hauds of nearly every reading persou iu the city, tuid the fiimi ers of this immediate vlclplty.

Kvery "Weekls lasno is, in fiwr, TWO NEWSPAPKIiS, In which all Advertisements appear for

ONE CHARGE

AN early adjournment of Congress is talked of, that seeming to the timid ones tho only way by which they can much longer avoid doing something.

THE Tiffin, Ohio, "Charlie Ross"turned out to be the sou of Mrs. Ida B. Schenck, of Cincinnati. He was turned over to his mother on Monday.

THK Plymouth Advisory Council met in Brooklyn on Tuesday. One hundred and forty of the one hundred and sev-enty-two churches iavited, accepted the invitation.

IN France, "three-«ard monte" men are sentenced to ten year's imprisonment and fifty francs fine. America is the only country, perhaps, where they are encouraged much.

RUSSIA is about to get ahead of all the other countries after all. The St. Petersburg Medical College graduated 171 female students last year, of whom 102 belonged to the nobility.

A STEADY stream of gold-hunting adventurers is setting in towards the Black Hills, and the question of "what the Government is going to do about it" becomes an interesting one.. ./•

WASHINGTON correspondent's are laboring hard to make a martyr of Bristow. Being a sensible man, he must find the silly twaddle telegraphed from there extremely annoying.

Fon some time there has been a standing advertisement in some of the London newspapers. "How to make £1,000 a year with £1,000 capital by farming in America," and still the grangers in this oountry are not happy.

•THKRK ia bigotry among Christians" remarks an exchange, "or those calling themselves so, no doubt but for hardheaded, reason-proof, any-numbor-of-donkey-power bigotry we will show you six infidels to your one Christian."

IMITATORS of Moody and Sankcy are springing up all over tho country but lot them go In the oountry will be none tho woreo off for it. It's a good deal better to imitate that kind of work than some other that might bo mentioned. ___________________

AN exchange places tho number of unemployed laborers in tho anthracite region of Pennsylvania at 200,000, and states that on Monday morning last no less than 00,000 were thrown oat of work. Such a state of affairs is dreadful to contemplate.

THK man with the fork in bis insido is again the topic of discussion in Paris. The fork now lies transversely, with the point pressing against toe outer wall of the stomach. The surgeons of one of the leading hospitals are about to make an effort to have him fork over.

THK feeling against DM gas companies seems to be spreading all over the United SUtes, and ia eaid to be having fta effect on the market price of stocks of that kind. The simple fact is that people are finding oat that wit* the improrsd lamps that ean now be had, it is possible to get better and cheaper light than gas. OAs in convenient and cleanly, and whin yon have mentioned these two qaaiitte* you have exhausted all the superior merits that can be claimed for it. With the new lamps, the light is clear, steady and soft, and the eoat for less than vithjpM,

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PEOPLE

P.S. WESTFALL

EDITOR

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PROPRIETOR

VRRE HAUTE, FEB. 10, 1870.

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THK season lor heavy firns Heems have o»ened. ,,

How many people know that ofton should be pronounced ofn?

SPRINOKU and Cox seem to be the twi "end mon" in Conpress now.

THEY are making little gun IN GER many which will weigh 12." tons.

Tf^K I^enten season this year begins March fir&t and ends April eleventh.

PKACH trees are in bloom in East Tenuesseo and Western North Carolina

WKNDELL PHILLIPS'Centennial ticket is Ulysses S. (jrant ami Frederick I)ou glass.

THE Western Union Telegraph Com pany has reduced it's rates from 20 to 30 percent. '. '"V ..

MR. JAMKH PARTON has been married over again, in" New York, and is now supposed to be "all right."

TnK National ItepublicHn Convention will meet June J4th, at Cincinnati, and nominate the next President.

THK price of gas has been reduced fifty cents on the thousand feet, at Indianapolis, leaving the price, at present, *3.5°. _====_

A SAN FRANCISCO paper complains that there are too many elections in California. That's a complaint that could be made in Indiana.

TUBRK is nothing more contemptible," says tho Cincinnati Journal, "than foreman to go about spreading the

CIRCULARS have been published by the committee appointed by the State Teachers* Association to arrange for a teachers' excursion to the Centennial, stating that the expenses of railroad fare and hotel bills for one week will be §82 to each teacher, or J42 to remain ten days. 'y-

TnB marriage ol ,Fumes Parton with his step-daughter leads the Boston Globe to "suppose he had had children by his former

martiage

some

A BOOK called "Courtship, Love, and Marriage," published in 1680, holds that as often as every ssextile j'ear dotho return, tho laydes have the sole privilege dui ing the timo it continueth ot making lovo to the men, and that no man will be entitled to tho benolit oi clergy who dotbe in any wise treat her proposal with slight or contumely. Tho book is an authority, an undisputed authority, so, ladies, "sail in."

TnE whisky ringsters now serving out sentences in the Gibson county jail are having rather a jolly time of it, it appears. A correspondent of tho Indianapolis News wites that they have been permitted to furnish a room in good style, and spond tho time in playing cards, drinking whisky, and enjoying themselves. He also intimates that the key of the jail is loft with them when they desire it.

IT may be some comfort to those simple minded people wly are always grumbling about President Grant's "enormous" salary of fifty thousand dollars, to hear that it is not as largo as that paid in France. President McMahon'ssalary isjone hundred and twentyjthousand dollars per annum, and besides that he is allowed seventy-eight thousand dollars with which to defray his expenses for receptions and public entertainments.

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

In for­

mation that So-and-so AOJI failed, and So-and-so probably will. And yet there are gossipingnolaanoee who devote their time to just this sort of thing."

and should have

by this. His prcsont wife would become tho mother of her own brothers and sisters, and her own children would be the nephews and nieces of their brothers and sisters."

SOME lady has sent a dollar to Mrs. President Grant as the nucleus of a fund for the redemption of the obligations of the nation. Her plan is to organize an association with Mrs. Grant at its head to solicit subscriptions of one cent and upwards for the purpose of paying the entire public debt before the close of the centennial year. We aro afraid it will be rather hard to get up enough of that kiad of enthusiasm to wipe it all out. It is hard to look at those figures—$2,544,426,981.25—withoutof feeling somewhat discouraged.

PROTESTS against the repeal of the bankruptcy act are being circulated in all the large cities of the country. The general sentiment seems to be against the repeal. In most civilized governments the theory and practice is, that the hopelessly insolvent merchant should be allowed to give up all that he has and go free many of them go farther and reserve to the ruined man a small suin to the end that he may not become a pauper and that his family shall not be reduced to beggary or starvation, but on the contrary that be may make anew start in life and again become a useful citizen. Experience proves that such laws are wise and benificent, notwithstanding the occasional abuse.

A

COMPANY, composed mainly of Onclnuatians, has been organised under the style of the "Jamestown Fish Culturist's Company" with a capital of $80,000 for the purpose of the prorogation of the finer qualities of fish, at Chau-

taaqoa

Lake, in the northwestern part

of the Stat of New York. The grounds of the company are located on the outlet of the lake, and consist of forty-two springs, supplying sixty-four ponds, in which at present there are stored 100,000 eggs and 60,000 trout. Wring the month of March the company will lay down one hundred and five ponds, which will give them a capacity of carrying 1,000,000 fish. Of this number one-fourth aro marketable each year.

IT used to be the case in this country that a man on trial for any crime was held to be innocent until he had been proven guilty. Tt was nil the more the caso when tho man charged with crime could prove a previous good character. The principle that tho prisoner was always entitled to the benefit of any doubt was universally reoognlacd and acknowledged as just. Wearing good clothes and being a member of a church was no evideneo that he was ascouti drel. The lovo of fair play was Instinctive with tho American people, and it was a matter of national prldo that our leanings were towards charity rather than prejudice. But all that is changcd now. Previous good character is counted as nothing. If a man wear good olothee, act like a gentleman and enjoy the confidence and respect of people in high places, it is so much against him. If be be emminent for good works of any kind so modi the more reason for polling him down. Nothing can be so mtach against him as having been a proned Christian or a member of a church. We have had numberless instances of this change in public sentiment within the past three or four year*. It ii hardly worth while recalling them here. It is only neoessary to pick up a daily paper to at any time find the proof of the change we have noted. Does anybody think we a«t a nation are better for the change?

CIRCULARS signed by Governor Hendricks and Professor Cox have been Issued, requesting the Centennial agents through tho. State to forward their collections on or before the 15th of Maroh to Professor Cox, h» care of Gibson's warehouse.

THE condition of Speaker Kerr' health is such that he has been forced to temporarily abandon his place in the House and seek rest and recuperation at home, llis friends are very much alarmed about him and doubt whether he will ever recover. Hon. 8. S. Cox was on Thursday electod speaker pro tem.

THE gas question is also agitating Indianapolis. A petition signed by fivo thousand names asking the city council to charter anew company has been presented, and tho council has appointed a committee of five members visit Pittsburgh and investigate the now process of manufacture, as well as the standing and reliability of the company asking a charter from the city. There seems to be a little suspicion that there is a trick in it some where—that the gas is too cheap. .. ,,

THE Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial has a remarkably fine ear for rumors regarding Bristow's resignation, lie has been telegraphing in variouB shapes, the same "rumor" about Grant's having "requested," etc., oil and on now for several weeks, but generally winding up with the statement that, "it cannot be traced to any reliable source." It would be a satisfaction if be would give us a iest on that point until be can trace it. The thing is getting monotonouf

TnE London Morning Post makes the statement that Ritualism has culminated in Romanism. It asserted that 100 clergymen, with a congregational constituency of 25,000 men and 150,000 women, are in communication with Rome with a view to withdrawing from the established church, acknowledging the Pope for their head, and adopting without reservation the doctrines and ceremonials of tho Church of Rome. Many of the Ritualistic clergymen are married, and it is understood that they petion for an indulgence in favor of these, but providing for the celibacy of those who shall hereafter take priestly orders.

A CASE has just been decided in the United States Circuit Court at Memphis, which is of interest to travelers. A man by the name of Blum sued the Pyllman Sleeping Car Company for the loss of three thousand dollars alleged to have been stolen between Humboldt and Memphis while Blum was a passenger and asleep on one of the sleeping cars of the defendants. The judge instructed the jury that the Sleeping Car Company was not liable as an inn-keepor or common carrier, like a railroad company, which was held by the Supreme Court

Indiana. A private boarding or lodging-house, or restaurant, is as reponsible as an inn-keeper for loss of goods by guests. Sleeping cat companies must take reasonable care of guests and property, especially while said guests are asleep. If the company was negligent, they became liable, «nd if the plalntift was negligent as to the care of his own property, the company should not be held liable. A sleeping car company is liable only for such property as is usually carried about the persons of passengers, such as clothing, small baggage and auch amount of money as is neoessary for traveling-ex-penses. If the plaintiff's loss was caused by want of care on tbe part of defendants, he should have directed a verdict for such reasonable amount for traveling expenses as the jury may deem necessary. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for |100.

THE London Times has been accused of felling to use its great resouices in telegraphing, but tbe letters by Dr. Russell, telegraphed from India, aro the most expensive matter over published In a newspaper. In the Times of January 31, there Is a dispatch from Agra (by Iudo European Telegraph via Teheran,) more than two columns In length, written in tho style of descriptive splendor for which tho Times Special is fa/nous. Here Is a sjecimen of this telegraphic matter: "The snowy dome and minarets of the Taj and tho city of Agra wero covered with a golden haze, for a strong wind blew and dust drifted In clouds froin the drv, sandy soil. At tho station Sir John Strachey, the Lieutenant Governor, with his stall, civil snd military, in full uniform, received the royal visitor. A

gandaand

uard of honor was drawn up, with artillery. Outside, lining tl.e roadway on both sides, under the walls of the fort, were nearly two hundred elephants, belonging to the great chielh, hearing chairs of gold and "liver, with trappings of wonderful richness. Beyond these was a sea of heads. The procession of elephant's was formed in two lines, tha Prince and Sir John Straehey leading. "AH along the route gay stands were erected, whereon musicians played and women danced. Thero were many platforms, tinseled and bright streamers, triumphal arches and inscriptions, and wreaths wero displayed in profusion. The adjoining cities and municipalities had erected separate stands, and the Prince, over whose head was borne a goldeu umbrella, was received from tbe station to the Lieutenant Governor's camp with every respect, and was regarded with Intense interest. The camp was spacious and splendid, being pitched on the old ground whereon a cavalry action was fought on General Greatbed's arrival from Delhi to raise the aeige. When the Prince's elephant arrived In front of tbe Durbar tent, before which tbe royal standard floated from a lofty staff, it was feoed round, and then In succession like old-feshioned men-of-war ranging in older of battle one after the other, the elephants passing before him wore and backed Into the nation in a curved line, and then, in defile, upwards of 130 elephants, tbe European authorities, civil and military. Kawaba, Rajahs, and Sirdars passed in review, saluting the Prince, all which formed a roup fa theater well conceived and adtnlraulv executed.

MRS. M. H. P., the New York correspondent of tho SU Louis Republican, does not seem to have been favorably impressed with the appearance ot the evangelists, Moody and Sankey. She writes: "Moody is a well-fed, stout-lunged, ungrammatical old party—a deal better suited to running a liotel or commanding a canal boat than acting as master of ceremonies, in these revivals. I should think that entering heaven un der his auspices was arriving at a pleasant conclusion by very questionable means. No report of his sermons gives any idea of bis illiterate style, his sloven pronunciation and his grammatical outrages. Mr. Moody, among other instances, cited the business of th*t Ark In these words: "Look at the deluge— wus the people told tu go doin' any big things No nutbin' was said to no one but Noah and he wus told to be buildin' an ark—and that one ark, a contemptous thing, wus the ono thing saved." The piggishness of the saintly Sankey is exasperating to behold, ana tho conduct of the thousands who go to seethe free show is awful."V •,

HIGH AND LOW.

[Jennie une'8 Fashion Letter Young ladies have revived a fashion of twenty-five years ago in tho high necks and short sleeves, which are almost universally adopted. It is a pretty and becoming fashion for those who have pretty, well-rounded arms, and looks modest, as well as girlish, but It is absurd for women of middle age, and no woman, married or past thirty,should affect it. American women, at the North, young or old, never have taken kindly to low-necked dresses. The climit6 is agiinst thom. The draughty architecture of our public buildings is against them, and the traditions of a more or less Puritan ancestry aro dead against them.

Our girls, until after they have been abroad, always loo.c more or less scared In alow dresses, and our women do not like exhibitions of that sort, or they have not much to exhibit, or they wear flannels like men, and dare not omit them. Whatever tho reason, high-neck-ed dresses, that is to say, bodices cut square, or shaped, are always In tho majority at balls and parties in New York City, so that a woman with a low dress, ancl especially if it is a very low one, is a mark for observation, is stared at, and looks isolated from the rest of the crowd. Even ladies who have become accustemed to them abroad, yield to fho insensible pressure and cover their shoulders with a lichue or a loose cape.

TnE RESPONSIBILITY OF JOURNALISM. [New York Tribune.]

It is high time for journalists to realize a fact which many of them seem to forget—that their responsibility to the public is a solemn a sacred thing. It is a mistake to fancy that journalism is nothing more than a private speculation, in which he who wno ventures risks only his own means and reputation. It is a sacred trust. It can exist only upon condition that public confidenco in its integrity is not impaired. It involves trust in the honor of the journalist by thousands of fellow-citizens, and faith in his fidelity to public interest. It is a trust the more delicate because in not one case in a thousand where it is abused, can the wrong done bo redressed Or punished.

THE BUSINESS O UJTLOOK. [St. Louis Journal, Feb. lo.] general feeling of security, hopefulness, and firmness is cropping out, and becoming apparent throughout the entire country, and making Itself folt in the various business interests. That there are bettor times in the near future every one is now assured, and the more cheerful and well posted, those who observe indications from causes and reason from facts, feel sanguine that tbe dull times have passed their culminating point, and that the new era is upon us. This new state of things will be the more keenly felt throughout the coming spring and summer, and by autumn, if not sooner, the general loosening up and relief will be more palpably and agreeably realised in the Wes*.

THE DYNAMITE PLOT ON THK 5"

STAGE

[Herald Dispalch.l

The Tbomassen play at the Josephstadt Theater, Vienna, seems successful financially. The authors do not stick close to history. Thomassen lives in expensive style in Vienna. His mistress demands $70,000. He orders a clock, sends his wife and child, his mistress, tbe maker of the infernal clock and his wife, a clock mak«r's journeyman and the clock maker's son, who is captain of the ship, on board. There is a terrible oxploslon, and the tho curtain falls, amid stormy applause. Tho lighthearted Viennese aydienco was visibly affected.

THE WAY THE CONFEDERATE ANIMAL PRANCES. [From the Chicago Times.]

The plain truth is that tho hard-mon-ev end of the Confederate animal is not the leading end. Tbe animal is n*»t 30ing that way. It is going tho opposite wav. It in going the way which the Tithes, last fall, told tho country it would go, In spite of its defeat in Ohio and Pennsylvania. It is going the ragbaby way, and tho little hard-money stub of a tail, which fancied itself the bead, is wagging along after it.

QETTISG UP PUBLIC OPfFlOS*. [From the Boston Herald.) The editor of a Western Republican paper, writing to a political friend, asks: "Ik you think it would hurt any to publish an articlo lioaded 'Blaine for President,' from a Springfield, Mass., paper Tho article in uaestion gives a partial biography of Blaine, bis eltgibilitv, Ac, It would make about five columns. They offer to pay wtU/or xL

MR. MOODY has set at rest tbe Qtiestion whether bis labors and those of bis associate are pecuniarily profitable to theui. Atone of his dosing meetings in Philadelphia he made this statement: "Laatnigbt I heard it said that we received one cent from every photograph of us that ia sold in the streets. I would gladly pay one cent for every one ratber wan have them sold. I have reftaaed to have a photograph taken for eight years, and I ao not know whether tnese pic* tuna look more like you than me. we receive a royalty upon the1 hymn-books, but not a dollar oomM into our hands.

em. We intend to give a thousand dol lara toward the new building of the Young Men's Christian Association. We don* want your money we want your wxila. We shall not take a farthing ftvm the committee our services have been gratuitous."'

Incidentals

THE QUESTION OF HONESTY.

The writer of "Husks and Nubbins," in a late issue takes a rather misanthropic viow of degenerate Integrity between business men, and by them tow ard both customers and producers. But tbe matter impels me to recount a pleasant occurrence of very reoent date right here at home.

A well known butcher doing business on one of our principal streets, employed on commission a little weascl-faced fellow whose appearance indicated that his ancestors had been of those who long ago dwelt in Palestine. Tho butcher promised him twenty-five cents for every dressed hog he should buy for him. The contract continued tome days, and was a good thing for both parties. The little man usually secured purchases by keeping sharp look onfc on roads leading into the city, like a tug standing out in the month of a harbor watching for schooners In this manner I10 pounced upon farmers before other butchers could get hold of their hogs.

But finally this drtihiitt^r piloted fo the shop an inexperienced colored man from tho Lost Creek settlement, who had a wagon loaded with fine hogs. As the owner was lifting them out of the wagen tho drummer whispered into the ear of tho man of meat, "This fellow isjust as green you can cheat him all you please! Now you keep sly while 1 weigh."

The hogs were brought in to be weighed. The butcher motioned to his son, idicating that ho should take the figures. This was not observed by the littio man, and he kept tally for the weight of each hog, in an assured manner that created no suspicion in the honest and innocent farmer.

After the hogs were weighed the little man cast up his account and named a certain sum as tho worth of tho hogs.

Then tho butcher, turning to his son, asked, "Edward, what does the lot weigh?"

Edward repliod, naming a figure that placed the worth of tbe hogs, at the price per pound agreed upon, between twenty and thirty dollars higher!

The other had of oourse made a fraudulent difference in the weight of each hog.

Tho butcher now addressed tho astonished swindler. "Do you seo that door? Get out, or I'll kick you out,and dont you ever come near me again!" He then paid tho farmer tho true price of the hogs.

This happened only a few days ago, and the beauty of it is that it's true. Moreover, whftheror not honesty is the best poliey, the butcher who practised it so handsomely as I have here related is one of the most thriving in the city, 'MAK.

SCOWLING.

Don't scowl it spoils faces. Before you know it your forehead will resemble a small railroad way. There is a grand trunk lino now from your cowlick to tho bridge of yottr nose, intersected by parallel lines running east and west* with curves arching your eyebrows and oh I how much older you look for itl Scowling is a habit that steals upon us unawares. Wo frown when the light is too strong and when it is too weak. We tie our brows into a knot when we aro thinking and knit them even mere tightly when we cannot think. There is no denying there are plenty of things to scowl about. The baby in the cradle frowns when something fails to suit—"constitutional scowl," we say. The little toddler who likes sugar on his bread and butter tells his troubles in the samo way when yon leave tho sugar off. "Cross," we SRy about tho children, and "worried

such

to

death," about the grown folks, and as for ourselves, wo can't liolp it. But we must. Its reflex Influences make others unhappy, for face answereth unto face In life as well as in water. It belies outreligion, We should possess our souls in

peace that it will rollect itself in

E1lacid

oountonances. If your forehead rigid with wrinkles beforo forty what will it be at seventy 7 There is ono consoling thought about theso marks ol time and trouble—tho death angel almost always erases them. Even the extremely aged in death often wear a smooth ana peaceful brow, thus leaving our last memories of them calm and tranquil. Butour busines« is with life. Scowling Is a kind of silent scolding. It shows that our souls need sweetening. For pity's sake, let us take a sad-iron or a glad-iron, or smoothiug tool of some sort, and straighten theso creases out of our faces beforo they become Indelibly engraved up«n our visage.—[Christian, at Work.

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THE Young Men's Christian Association of New York has had a

prosperous

year. At the annual meeting, hold January 24, tho treasurer reported that the receipts for 1S75 were fj2fl,95S, and the disbursements§20,78*5. Classes wenmaintained during the year in German, French, Spanish, book-keeping, and vocal music, with a larger attendance than was ever known beforo. From Octoler 20,035 students wero enrolled. Tho average attendance at Dr. Thompson Bible cl.vs was i'H4 •». the service of song, 414 at ta the Sunday prayer meetings, 125 at the lectures. 11H5 and at the monthiv receptions, 1250. An

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peal was made for the clearing off of the mortgage debt on the Association building, which amounts to 1150.000.

AMONG tho evangelists now active tnroughout the United States, several women are quite conspicuous. Miss Smiley, the Quakeress, is greatly interesting tbe people of Cleveland: Mrs. VanCOtt is now In Newark, and Mrs. Lowry, formerly an actress, is preaching in Brooklyn. At the reoent meet* ins of the Congregational Association of Elgin, Illinois, an application lor license to preach was made by Miss E. K. Newman. The association was for a time evenly divided on the question of granting tbe application, but finally adopted tbe following:

Without in any way Indorsing the Idm of womra becoming pautoiw in the n*ual aeose of that term, yet. from what we know of Miss Newman's qualifications, we ao, a* an amoclatlon, commend her to those desiring such help as she can give, and In Pnnl** words concerning Phebe of Oenchr. commend Miss K. K. Newman, as a servant of tbe Churrli, to the confluence of tl*e -huivU«^ as y?ie flltod to preach.Christ."