Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 7, Number 3, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 15 July 1876 — Page 4

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

CLOSED BLINDS.

It is a large, comfortable looking farm house, situated on the summit of a grassy knoll a few rods back from the public road. On one aide of it flourishes a large, well-kept orchard on the other la green meadow stretches away lb the edge of the oool, dark woods.

Behind the house we catch a ««of a neat vegetable garden, and still liind that, barns and grain-stacks give evidence of thrift. Sorely this most be the abode of bapplnesa, and yet a chill strikes to our hearts at tbe thought of home life thore. An irrepressible feeling oflonesomeness oomes over us, aud we congratulate ourselves that it is not our home. Again we look at the house

Jt is pleasantly built thero are several "cosy nooks and corners about it the E- iazzas must surely be pleasant places sit upon In a summer's eve. But, ah! the blinds are all dosed.

Not a single window upon tho front "'or side of the whole house i* open to let in the blessed sunlight or give out the good cheer of a sweet home. The tired s/ranger passing by, looking up lovingly at tbe darkened windows, turns away more tired than before. No traveler la cheered with a glimpse of happiness within no wanderer is reminded of hla own home by tho glimmer of firelight through the half open shutters. Morning, boon, or night, whoever is passing, it is still the same—the blinds are always closed. "What!" questions a new neighbor, "does no one live there? Are the rooms not furnished? What kind of people own tho bouse

Two old people live there," answers our companion. "They are good, honest people, but they do not know what parlors and piazzas are for. They always stay in the little dark kitchen at the back of the house, coming and going from the back door. See, the grass has grown almost over the front door-step."

But have they no children or friends? Do they never open tbe parlor for company?"

Their company is mostly like themselves. The parlors, though elegantly furnishod, have never been opened but twice—when tbe daughter was married and when the son was buried. A wedding and a funeral. The chairs are all wrapped in white linen sheets, the carpet strewn with sandal wood to save it from the moths, pictures all covered with tarlatan, piano-legs wranped in papers. One glance inside the door would make one shudder a whole day through with the bare remembrance of its sepulchral gloom."

IIow gladly do we turn from this gloomy picture to the sweet little cottage upon the opposite side of the road. It is a very small cottage, and the owner not rich enough to afford blinds, even to shut out Mie glare of the noonday sun. But the pretty house-wife thore has planted vines beneath the windows, which have grown up, and half conceals the pretty home-picture within. But not quite, for see, even now, though it is hardlv twilight yet, the fire-light is shedding its ruddy glow Over all the room, giving a rich back ground to the sweet, sunny face peering out from betweon dainty lace curtains, "watching for papa."

And look! Above the child-head, and through the interstices of vines and curtains, you can catch glimpses of pretty pictures and brackets, which always will make a home look so cheery. Surely the sight of suoh a home can but warm the heart and quicken the feet of the roughest home comer.

And who would not rather be the owner of that sweet cottage home and its darling inmates than the possessor of all the rich lands that surround the house where the blinds are always closed ?—[Pomeroy's Democrat.?®

t-'fefi.-, VANITY IN BOTH SEXES. Very general is the outcry against conoolted people, often raised by those who have a mote, if not a beam, of the same kind in their own eves. 2s there a fault so common? To begin with. Every roan who possesses talent Of any description, is charged by his detractors with vanity. If tney can llad no other fault, they invariably bring forward this one. In many cases it ts more thafl the truth but if a conceited genius is a distasteful thing, how much worse Is a conceited fool. It is our steadfast belief that for one clever man who rates hitnseif more highly than the world agrees to do, thore aro twenty, nay, a hundred, dull men who do likewise. Three-fourths of civilized

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cherish their little

private idolatries. Boaut& as well as talent—pretty women as* well as clever men—are alike open to the charge, and, in our opinion, those who are ugly and stupid, too. Do we not all know people who are intensely and obnoxiously proud of their riding, or ahcoting, or billiard uUying their singing, their painting, their personal fascination, etc. sometime* wleh reason, but quite as often without? When they have no aocomp!ishment?,it la curious to remark what special form tholr vanity take*.

supposed knowl

edge of the werld, or conventional ability, which is apt to bo ridiculously overrated or, perhaps, the idea of afeubtle persoua! charm that wins upon everybody. Who has not received the confidence of these latter how they

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strue tbe smallest kindness, the mo»t trifling attention, into warm friendship on the part of their own sex, and into something like love on the part of the other, we know a lady who was extremely vain tff her amiability.. Hhe had a settled, calm conviction that no one ever was so good-tempered as herself, and she plumed herself and twittered as complacently as a little bitd.. that never hear* a song so sweet as IM owxu

IIow many religious people think themselves saints of holiness? They would canonist) themselws at onoe, If they could d«» without derogat'ng from a beautiful show of oat ward humility. Vet they are not always the moat unseltt*h,. uot always the most high-minded ott heir order. Far from it.

There are others of a different clasa who are vain, uot of what they can do, but of what ta«y might do if—well, It a hundred contingencies should ocenf. people who posiess wonderful talents* only, unfortunately, th% have not been cultivated and brought forward in th? world, people who would have been great lawyer*, great generals, great novelists, but who hang all their lives on that fatal 'Mf.'V Consequently, you might remain forever ignorant of the treasures that lie hidden beneath the unpromising awrfaco, were it not that you are perpetually informed of their existence.

Hkn*y." Htoiwid, "dont you knoVr what a soothing influence you bate 0« me." "My darling," he whispered softly. while a glad light came into its ore*, "can It be so "Ye*," she said, "when von are arotyad I always feel like going to sleep."

A PEARL OF THE DESERT, Alter a certain degree of Intimacy had been estsbliahed among us, Mahmoud (aaya Albert Rhodes, writing In the Juh Galaxy of a visit to Bedouin sheikh, saluted me with more "than usual a (fa bility as I approached his tent one day the salutation being. "Peaoe be with you," which, ft will be observed, la quite aimple compared to the extravagant greetings of Cairo, vjhere an acquaintances manner of saying good morning often la, "May your day be white." to which the Inevitable response Is, "May yours be like milk."

He asked me if I did not like his peo-

Eappy.

le, and if I did not think they were My answers were such as he expected. There was something else, however, on his mind, which after a a! lence be communicated to me. He Invited me to come and live with hi in,

relatives, and he pointed to where she •vas at that moment. My eyes followed the direction of his finger, and I saw. thirty or forty yards off. a symmetrical girl jerking a goatskin iwek and forth— in other words, churaing goat's milk— and before I oould stop nlm he had sent for her. She swung the doshing fluid two or three times vigorously to make it go for some time, and then ran toward us, but her step became slower when she saw there was a stranger present. Mahmoud informed her of tne proposition he had made to me. She was sixteen, with the development ol one of our women at twenty. A veil was drawn over her face with sufficient indiscretion to show that she was comely. She looked at me furtively, and according to the Interpreter who was present, asked naively, Does my lord like pilaf t" Without waiting for Instruction, tho interpreter answered in the affirmative, when she added, "And ra-hat-la coom?' To which alike answer was given. In other words, her chief desire was to know if her partner of her joys and sorrows was fond of rice and something resembling fig paste. "Taib, taib," said the chief, waving his hand, and sne ran away with the grace of gazelle. "Yon see," pursued the chief, "she is as lithe as one of the willows there which overhangs the Jordon, and as beautiful as a dream. Are you a sheikh in your oountry beyond the sea He was informed that I belonged to the rank and file of humanity, when be said he would raise me to chieftancy on my wedding day with the young person 'who had just left us. I explained that I could not avail myself of his matrl menial offer, as I was obliged to return to my home.

Marry her for the time you live with us, and when you leave divorce her," was bis reply, which was a significant commentary on the marriage relations of tbis curious people*

I endeavored to explain that such a union would be considered immoral in my country,

and that

It was in the days of the camphene and burning fluid era. you remember, that the wicks passed through long tubes that were about two inches above the lamp. Attached by a chain to each lamp were two metal extinguishers. At that time I was employed in a business that occupied the latter part of tbe night, sleeping tbe first half. On the night in question my wife had failed to awaken me by calling so, taking the lamp in her hand, she came to tne bedside to arouse me. Prom the time that tbe light of the lamp shone in mv face until I was awake, I bad gone to the engiuehouso, helped to get out the machine, ran about three miles, and helped to put out the biggest kind of a fire, and awoke tired and sore, and fully impressed with the idea that I had labored at least three hours on tho brakes besides doing other fire laddie duty. And yet the fire was only the reflection of the lamp in my face, and tho horrid clatter of the firebells was only the jingle of the extinguishers againat the lamp. My all night work, that made my arm and back ache so, in reality occupied not more than a few seconds and thus the majority of dreams are made.

THE 7 WO ELEPHANTS. Two vory young elephants, male and female, had been separated, in oruei tole conveyed singly to Paris and, not having seen one another for several months, the Joy tberv expressed on rneetnot to "be described. Running Instantly together they utterqd a cry of delight that shook tho whole building, and blew the air out of their trunks with violence, resembling the blast of a smith's bellows. Tbe female's pleasure seemed to be more lively she expressed it by moving her ears with astonishing rapidity and tenderly twlnof the ear, considerable time motionless, and, after having folded It again about his body, she applied It to her own mouth. The male fn like manner folded his trunk around tho body of the female, and the pleasure he felt seemed to be a more sentimental kind, for he expressed it by shedding an abundance of tears. Afterwards they had one stable In common, and their mutual attachment excited much interest." It was a strange sight to see an elephant cry for Joy. No one ean doffbt that each understood the other's expression of afitection.—[Tbe Methodist.

astonnjung rapidity ana tenueriy itig her trunk ar«und the body male. She laid it particularly to his where she held it for a eonsldei

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Cherry Pectoral,

r^r Diseases ol the Throat and Langs, sneh aa Congha, Colds, Whooping Cooffh, Bronehltls, 'J sthmn and Consumption.

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tion could hot be cntortained. At this he removed the cnibouque from his mouth, emitted Ion .?, tnin breath of smoke, and philosophically remarked:

What a straugtt people!" •'},

\A DEE A MEIt'S EXPERIENCE. [H. McKay In the Hartford Times.] How swiftly, with what iigbtftinglike action tbe soul passes through experiences In dreams, and bow instantaneously we pass through seemingly long dreams, is thus illustrated by another fact In the experience of the aDove writer:

the public about forty years, by a long continued series of marvelous cures, that have won for it a confidence in its virtues, nevei equaled by any other modioine-. It still makes the most effectual cures of Coughs. Cold*, Consumption, that can be made by medical skill. Indeed the Cjhkuky Pkctoral has really robbed these dangerous diseases of their terrors, to a great extent, and given a feeling of immunity from their fatal eflfecta, that is well founded, if the remedy be taken in seasou. Every family should have it is their closet for tho ready and prompt relief of its members. Hlckness, suffering, and even lite Is saved by this timely protection. The prudent should not neglect It, and the wise will not. Keep it by ,-qu for the protection it affords by its timeuse in sudden attacks.

PREPARED nv

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J. 4 A YJElt A O., LOWELL, MASS.

Practical anU Analytical Chemists. Sold by all druggists .and dealers in medi cine.

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For llexioring Gray Hair To Us Natural Vitality and, Color. teg Advancing years, 7%icknes, cans, dls»appointment, and .y: 1 ereditnry pr' disposition, all turn the hair gray, aud either of them incline it to shed prematurely.

ately "often renews the growth, and always surely restores its color, when faded orgray. It stimulates the nutritive organs to healthy activity, and preserves both the hair and its beauty. Thus brashy, weak or sickly huir becomes glossy, pliable and strengthened lost hair recrows with lively expression falling hair is checked and established: thin hair thickens and laded or gray hair resume their orginal color. Its operation is sure aad harmless. It cures dandruff, heals all humors, and keeps tho scalp cool, clean and soft—under which conditions, diseases pt the scalp are impossible.

As a dressing for ladies' hair, the\

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IndlgMtlon l.lqaid Kxtract of Betr. are cured by using T. Toaie Saiicfr and 1 iquid Extract of Beef, PILCH whether brotiith^ on hy v# MiaMl r«D*M or the o«e of injurious medi* clues. t%*|. .. Peaiale l»l*ea*es» AT* ecm»dKy^*n* a.

T, 'iodic Uixir atnl

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Idncy Tronhlea *^ctirea tiv nsrtsg B, 4k T. Trmlo Elixir or Uj/iitl Extlact of n*cf. in male or female, are *t»i*d hy n«ing fSSSffK#

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drag store, tsll sta»oth«v aod If ill# sM«*n sale ta your place, have your draggist Older it, or *cnrt diwet »e w».

FUn,ll.eo p*r hottle. Sent oa lut IRMOX* TPtiUDOE.' CINCINNATI. OHIO.

TERHJS, ffAITTfl, 3ATUHD4-Y EVENING, MAIL

WAN PEOPLE.

No people In the world auffsr as mueh with Dyspepsia as Amerioana. Although yean of experience la medicine had foiled to accomplish a oertain and sure remedy for this disease and Its effects, such as Sour Stomach, Heart-burn, Wa-ter-braab, 8lck Headaehe, Costiveness, palpitation of the Heart, Liver Com plaint, coming np of tbe food, low splr its, general debility, ate., yet sinee the Introduction of GnsBft'g Auoust Fwwkr we believe thore Is tto eaao of Dyspepsia that cannot be Immediately relieved. 80,000 dozen sold last year without one case of failure reported. Go to your Drnggiit and get a Sample Bottle for 10 cents and try It. Two doses will relieve you. Regular size 75 cent'. (julyl-eow)

The few compostBitions which nave won the confidence of mankind and become household words, among not only one bnt many, nations, must have! extraordinary virituea. Perhaps no one :ever secared so wide 'a reputation, or mal ntained it so long, as Aykr's

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um»\ valued for the sofUustre and richness of tone it imparts.

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mi.j. c. AiEB&ro., .: 'i .*• LOWELL,' Practical and Analytical Chemists

Sold by all druggists and dealers hi medicine.

Hf A\TI?V aud little work. For 60 JyXvlJM -Ci Jl. Cents and a stamp, will send two articles that everybody wants and buys

sight. Juxt loofc at tliein. Yankee

Notion Novelty l.'o., Prov., R. I.

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iwwleiirne, MwerCenelie Heart ilfceaw, aim In M4», Ra*a sad •Miasrh, •(•. Tkma*4 many prM««l from Tor pi* Liver and ImMaeettoff.

Pal stall Th

Mop Mclui and be roarlaewL

la with effective compounds. Cores

OAIVIN

CherIiy Pkctokal. It has been known to

sional services to the citIzens of Terre Haute and -•_ vicinity in the practices^5-* of his profession. Hav--ing had fou'teen years successful practice in the treatment of al 1 the vnri ous diseases of the eye, both acute and chronic, he feels satisfied that he can give full satisfaction to all who are suffering with any of the various (Useases of the leye, by the sbortest, surest and safest practice now known lo the medjtal world. Having oiscovertd means by which all granulations or morbid deposits of bad flesn can be removed without doing the healthy or normal parts any injury, and having made a specialty of all chronic diseases incident to this climate, hope* to share a part of the public patronage. Con sulfations and examinations free. Office at residence on east Main, between lith and 14th streets. P. O. Box 241.

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TERR&HA1ITE

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Manufacturers of Artificial Stone and Power Pressed Hydraulic Cement,. DRAIN AND SEWER PIPE, ,,

iFrom 4 lachea to 80 Inches Inclusive. Aluo 8ton« for Bnllrting Frontii, Window Caps, of different designs, Wlidsw Kills, Key Stones and House Trlmmin«^ com* plote Morse Blocks, ot fkney designs. Beautiful Stone

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signs Well Curbing, Stone Sinks, Filters, Copelng and Posts, tor cemetery lots, Stone Bases, for nionnments, Pavlag Stone, dce^ dcc^ at greatly reduced prices. All Fancy

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light over tbnir speedy lejease from suffering. It affords

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ind Liver fad. lor over tw»nty years lhaveendured

Ilia horrors growlnr out of a torpid .liver and drsompaniei Lfl u«h hd appk pounds1

pala, accompanied with violent haulacbe, rtc. I thin a few weoks^flr using the Pad all these long eudured Ills left m^Pad ArrKTira

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do not keep them. Send for book containing much valuable information abont thi* wosderfai cnratlve.

Dr. D.V. Faircliiia, Prop., CiMiiaati, ft-

THE BEST AND PUREBT

TOILET SOAP.

CHEAP, CONVKNIENT, CLEANLY. DELICATELY PERFUiflKD. ASK

YOUR GROCER OR DRUGGIST FOR IT. WM. GLENN A SONS, CINCINNATI.

mV ABLISHED 1837.

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Viook, by long and extensive use, aas proven that it stops the falling of the hair immedi

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absorption. nr'fnR .i dm liver and stomach lmmelfataly, taking fro.u lli«»yteo eonr partlc'oiif Malaria and Bilious po'snn Is equally •fltcacloti* and a

sura pr«vantl%« In ah dtMases (trow.tig out or a Mordrr«) liver.

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uluel twentv-lhree pounds In two months, and feel restored to hedth, for which 1 feel indebted to uolmaa'a iavalnabie Pad.

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For sale by dealers generally. .« 'XCKSTElN. HILLS A CO., ClNCINNATTI, OllfO. NOTE.—Consumers will consult their INTEREST by bearing in mind that a large proportion of the article sold as PURE WHITE LEAD is adnlterated to the extent of from 50 to 9J percent and mncli of it does not contain a particle of Lead.

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RHEUMATISM

Is a disease that afflicts over 25 per oeotum of the human race. Almost every effort heretofore made in the treatment of this disease has been to allay the present suffering—trusting to lack to effect a cure. Db. P. J. GRIFFIN A CO., after years of research, now present to the public the only as fny

SCIENTIFICALLT

Prepared a: tic es in the market. The disease is treated externally by means of the Liniment, which, when properly applied reduces the swelling, relieves the tension and removes the inflammation, the cause of pain In a very short time, thus restoring freedom of movement and olasticlty to the joints. The disease being a blood poison, of a peculiar nature, iB \:n U-'iT

TREATED

Internally by means of the Pills and Elixer—alternating one with the other according to Directions. To effect a permanent cure, the Pills and Elixer must be used in conjunction with the LinLment.

Neuralgia, Nervous Prostration, Nervous Weakness, Paralysis, Softening of the Brain, Chorea, and all WEAKNESSES caused by the LOSS OF NERVE POWER cureid by use of

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Ask for Griffon's Rheumatic Remedies, they all bear our trademark and signature, and are put lip aeenrcly. Price, fl.OO each forwarded to any part ef the United States by express, prepaid, on receipt of 91.25.

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WHOLESALE GROCERS 1

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DEAJJERS IN ALL KINDS OK

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Domestic and Foreign Wines and Liquors*

Cigars aid Tobacco, Flour, Salt, Bails, &c.J

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CORNER BIABV AND FIFTH STREETS,

Calf and Kip Skins, Buff and Wax Upper, Grain Leather and Splits. HOLE—Buenos Ayres, Orinoco, Oak and Hemlock Slaughter. ROANS—Black. Blue, Oochln«*l, Cream, Green. Maroon, Piypla and Yellow, LINING8KINS—Pink. Russet. Yellow and White. CALF KID—French and American. MOROCCO—Cape. Curoeoa, Madras, Pataa and Tamatca, BniSh and Maroon, Binding. Boot Web, Boot Trees, Bristles. Cement, Cork Holes, CrinpLag Beards, Crimping Machines, Clamps, Eyelets, Edge Blacking, Qorlbgs, Galloons, Gaiter Web, Lastlngs, Laces and Lasts, Machine Thread and Wax, Nails, Awls and Tacks, Shoe Kits, Shoe?: Duck, Bhoe Threads, Shoe Trees, Shoe Blacking, and Brushes.

I am preparing PURE CLEAKIFIED TALLOW FOR RAILROAf**. I sm sellimi goous almost cxclnsivtly for cash, at prices

middle

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Millinery, Straw Goods, Laces,

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XJ. J±. ZBTTI^3JTETT, WHOLESALE DEALER IN

LA.Tae3a and HIDES,

I^keep cohslahtiy onl^anlf and foods adapted to the wants of I arandsof French, German and American

Terre- Haute, Indiana.,

146 MAIN ST., TERRE HAUTE, DID

am n5w reoeivina a large and carefuJIy selected stock of

toods adapted to the wants of Boot and Hhoe ManufiacMrers, constating of cUechotaMt

And it greatly to his intefttt to hunt the goods, instead of having the goods hunt him. Parties who sell goods by agents at an expense of OM to $10M a day, must make it np In price, or lose money. All orders and consignments will receive Immediate and prompt attention. ,| |j

low that tbe consumer will

T. •. intu, Ml Hate M. Tarn Haatft

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J0BEflR8AKD DEALERS IN

Qaflfmirare, Glaiswaiv, Lamps, die

HSADQUABTBR9 FOB

Chandeliers and Bar Fixtures.

MartobntoJMbijtg Trade solicited, acut

xv firice" «u*rnnt«'»nl as low as aay Western

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