Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 7, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 February 1877 — Page 1

Vol. 7.—No...32.

THE MAIL

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People.

SECOND EDITION.

A SUMMER CHILD.

Iler life was short as robin-song A bit of Nature's praises: God made her in the moDth of one,

When He was making daisies.

We missed lier with the light and song, When autumn skies grew hazy: Alas! we could not keep our .Tun/*,

Why xhould we keep our daisy —{C'ARl- HPKNCEB.

Town-Talk.

With all the persistent and systematic advertising it has had, it would be little less than marvellous if the revival was not a prominent subject of "town talk" and, therefore, naturally entitled to precedence in this column. Opinions in referenco to it and Mr. Hammond are cf course varied, extending from outspoken denunciations to the most gushing and enthusiastic praise. The meetings have been well attended, however, and tbo interest unmistakable and one who believes in Christianity at all can scarcely doubt that some good must inevitably result. But the church people themselves, even those whose pastors are working so earnestly with Mr. Hammond, are not unanimous in their approval of that gentleman's stylo of business. While particularly cautious to say nothing against it, and hoping from their souls that it is all right, many of them find themselves wholly unable to free their minds from doubt and anxiety regarding it, and show, in their actions, and hesitating, half-hearted manner, how much they are inwardly disturbed. Mr. Hammond's methods are of course the point around which gather the sharpest criticisms. His sincerity is not so much questioned as his style. While not many doubt the former, the latter, by its "stagy" and sensational character, gives rise to suspicion.

Now T. T. sees no particular reason why these good people should be troubled on this account. Even grant that ]\fr. Hammond is stagy and sensational and how does it detract from the value of what he accomplishes? Conducting religious revivals is his business. He has made it a study for years and his wonderful success proves that ho understands it. Ho works by rule and works hard. He is an intelligent, active leader and inspires others to work, and shows them how they can most effectively go about it. Just how much of his energy comes from religious enthusiasm and how much from an ambitious desire to distinguish himself as a successful revivalist, it would be manifestly unlair to inquire. Well-balanced, common-sense people are in no danger of considering him either an inspired apostle or unprincipled impostor. One view wruld be as foolish as the other. That he is a man thoroughly devoted to the work in which he is engaged and that that work in its results, is good instead of bad, is plain, and ought to be sufficient for ordinary purposes.

As to the charge of staginess, what does that signify. Oratory has always something of the theatrical about it. Hough spends weeks perfecting a leetnre and, when it is written, spends other weeks in memorizing every tone and gesture with which ho expects to move his audience. His treatment of the subject seldom varies, and it is just this very thing, this perfection in the dellverey, that makes what he says most effective. Mr. Hammond works probably in much the same way. He tells the same anecdotes, uses the same .illustrations, goes through the same performances—if that word is allowable —in town after town, month after month and year after year. Besides this he lias a readiness and tuct and an indomitable Industry that accomplishes wonders. He has also, what seems to ordinary mortals, marvellous fluency. He catches up the most trivial circumstances and uses them for purposes of illustration, with telling effect. He eagerly s?ir.es on every means of advertising himself aud his meetings, and does it with great skill, aud yet who can say that lie is not justifiable iu this if it adds to his influence and power to tarn men from evil?

The fact is Turn* Hante needs a shak-ing-up dreadfully. Interest in religious matters ha* been at an exceedingly low ebb. Something was absolutely necessary to be done. The ministers here, though the best of men, were nnablo ttaetuiclvrs'to do what they desired to see done. With Mr. Hammond's help they will get thinga started, at least. That the revival will be productive of immense good there o&u be no sort uf doubt. Even if its effects should only last while Mr. Hammond is in town, it will still do good. If a bad man can only be brought to think seriously of his soul and a Saviour for an hour, he is in some sense a better man for it. Such thoughts are never wholly lost But hundreds of people will be Influenced by thosomeetlnga to bettor lives. The home preachers will be able to ex­

ert more influence. Members of chHrches will be brightened up and take a fresh interest in religious work. _y

In view of all thesejthings, it would be a pretty serious thing, as T. T. views it, for any christian to take the responsibility of discouraging the revival on Mr.|Hammond's'acoount. If he cannot altogether approve, it would be much more becoming to keep his objections to himself. It is quite evideat that Mr. Hammond is not going, t® do any harm and there seems to be the best of reason for believing that bo will accomplish greatgood. 'I

Husks and Nubbins.

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FESTUS.

When we wrote last week the book was but half finished and the last half shows that, if anything, wo estimated it too low. It is really a powerful poem— a wonderful medley of great thoughts and dolicate fancies. If some excuse be thought necessary for dwelling at such length on such an out-of-the-waj' subject as an old poem, it must be that the world generally has much too little to do with anything poetical and a great deal too much, with everything practical so that our finer feelings and sensibilities become blunted and dull if indeed they are not altogether battered out of us. The cure for this miserable one-sidedness is to read such books as Festus and others not more practical. It is a pity if we bocome mere machines to make money and count it. There is more to be made of life than that. Every healthy nature must think with a kind of horror of such mental and moral monstrosities as the late Stewart and Vanderbilt. .'ftNot that there is much danger of "many of us becoming such colossal misers, but of cultivating their vices with less splendid results. The best way to keep from breaking down in middle age from overwork is to give all the faculties of the mind something to do. This rests and relieves it, as the changing of physical exercises rests and strengthens the different muscles cf the body. .. ,/• vfyV

With this prelude we plunge again into Festiis and on page 205 we cite this fine passage:

Peace hath more might than war. .High brows are calm Great thoughts are still as stars and truths, like suns, Siir not though many systems tend round 'them. Mind's step is still as death's and all great things Which oinnot be controlled, whose end is good."

How many of us have attained the true philosophy of life contained in the following lines? '•I know all I have to go through henceforth—all the doubts Passions of life and woes but knowing them Hinders them not I oear obeyingly And pine no'more, as once when Hooked back And saw how life had balked, and foiled, and fooled me. Kresh as a spouting spring u^on the hills

Mr heart leaped out to life it little thought Of all the vile cares that would rill into It, And the low places it would have to go through,— The drains, the crossings and the mill-work after."

How beautiful this illustration of young life and how the picture carries one back to the dawn of bis manhood or womanhood, when life was spheied with rainbows that did not vanish, or vanished only to bo recalled at the dreamer's pleasure! Verily life was as "a spouting spring upon the hills" then, pure and clear and sweet. What is it now A very muddy rivulet perhaps, and perhaps, too, a good deal muddier than it need or ought to be. Clear water will turn a mill-wheel as well as muddy—a thing men seem loth to believe or at least to act upon. If our later lives are reeking and stinking cess pools it is not nature makes them so but ourselves. It is where the stream flows sluggishly between high, narrow banks that it is thick and turbid when it spreads out over stones and pebbles and dances in the sunshine It becomes pure and bright as crystal. Some lives run ever between muddy banks and are strong but unclean others are all shallows and rapids and are pure enough but powerless. It is a proper combination of both which makes the grand and noble river,a ,?•

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As the poet ssys: "Mind Uath Its earth And Heaven. The many petty, common thougntx On which we dally tread, as it wore, make one, And ab«ve which few look: tVe other is a a 1 1 THas been attained through it, demon-

tbo fact that diseases display cer din phenomena, which being subjected An4 scie-itiflo analysis or synthesis,furnish fotmtlant and unmistakable data to the judsinent of the skillful pracTh^tiaright in determining the nature jf dise.i?«l conditions. The amplest repburoes for treating lingering or chronic isea.ses, and the greatest skill, are thus "*slrfeed within tho easy reach of every as ivalid, however distant he or she may

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We spoke last week of the poet's subsequent work not justifying the expectations which Festus aronsed. The author himself, we find, prophesies this very failure on his part. In a late part of the book he introduces a dialogue wborein he gives a brief history ol Festus, its meaning and purpose, as having been written by a friend of his, and at the conclusion is asked whether his friend wrote any other work, when

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he replies: ,'f .*•,«./ 4.,-, "Nothing. After that, like lhe burning peak, he fell Into himself, and was missing ever after."

If this as written when the book was first composed it was singularly prophetic. It is more likely however that it was interpolated ifi some one of the revisions of the poem which the author made years after.

Ind. Journal Mr. Bee-'her is working for money during his two months' vacation. He is under a contract with the lecture bureau to deliver one hundred lectures for f40,000. The appointments are all made out. The lecturer is thus sent off every week wherever occasion may call. His method is to arrive as early in the day as possible. He goes to the Dest hotel and avoids all callers. Alter dinner he takes to the bed and sleeps as long as possible. He is fresh for the lecture, and when it is overlie leaves, if possible, the same night. Two young men attend him as a body guard in order that he may not again be placed in suspicious circumstances without friends and witnesses around. Ago doth gender wisdom.

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BUSINESS PROSPERITY.-^ [N. Y. Tribune.] Business prosperity, if it comes, will now be attributed by many to the peculiar settlement «f the Presidential dispute. This will be unjust, for the country has been steadily and surely preparing, ever since 1874, and by the only possible mode, for a revival of business upon a moresolid basis. .s

ENDS AS HE BEGAN. [N. Y. Herald.]

The President has borne himself so well during the storc-ay agitation over the election of his successor that the country will be disposed to attribute his occasional shortcomings during the eight years he has been in power rather the influence of bad advisers than to his personal impulses. He ends as he began, in a self-reliant spirit of superior ity to party politicians.

V. FASHION NOTES. .. L*

Plush is the rage. Trailing skirts are moribund again. Brazilian insect ornaments are in demand.

Japanese styles of costume are comingi vogue. Sleeves are so tight that it

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to bend the arm. All opera bonnets and fiats are small, and have low crowns.

Satin and plush ribbons are the rage of the moment in London. Black cashmere is still the favorite fabric for dreuses for old ladies.

All Parisian eoiffures require an abundant cbevalure or rjuantiiiesof false hair. 0

On bonnets chenille in form of leaves and fringes occupies a prominent position.

The introduction of Smyrna lace for evening dresses is one of Worth's latest capri'jes.

A growing fondness for Oriental colors and designs has brought the shawl again in vogue,

Broad bands of straw gimp, one and a half inches wide, are shown on the newest evening dresses abroad

The princess dress for evening wear is made high-necked, half high, or low, according to circumstances. It must be long and trained.

Pocket handkerchiefs of fino batiste are adorned with stripes of blue, red, purple, or black, and trimmed with several rows of narrow Valenciennes.

A new necklace which shades the neck without concealing it, is made of some transparent lace, with festoons of seed pearls or gems and pearls intermixed.

A fashion designed—as la everything at present—for slim figures, and which stout ones will bo slow in accepting, is tbo one that promises to button all corsages, paletots and wrappings diagonal ly in front.

Some colors are now never seen in gloves, or if seen, are a sign that the wearer takes little note of the changes of fashion. These are straw color, ana p».le biue pearl gray and cream are arbitra ry shades, and mastic, a peculiar shade of gray, is the favorite.

A new material in preparation for overdresses only, and as yet unknown outside of the factory at Lyons, will be readv for the spring trade under the nail raine "coat-of-iiiailT This fabric ia described as at onco firm and supple, 1 somewhat resembling the steel arrofolden times, from which last fact flkea Its name.

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TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1877. Price Five Cents

People and Things.

A very bad judge—the man who tries his friends. Sloeping cars are now called "reputaon a

Anybody can feel charitably inclined. It costs nothing. Josh Billings wants to know who ever heard a rich man sing. y? y,.

One Boston firm made some 12,000 children's carriages last year. There were thirty-two murders in Chicago last year, and no one hangs for it.

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Soldiers who have lost both an arm and a leg are now entitled to a pension of §37 p?r month.

Taking success as a test of merit, Dion Boucicault is a much abler man than Shakespeare was.

Speaking of the commodore's $80,000000, the combined wealth of the Rothschilds is now put at $3,400,000,000.

It is a noticeable fact that very few poor persons are kleptomaniaes. When they steal they are simply thieves.

The Philadelphia Times tells of a bar ber who advertises "silent shaves," and whose shop is, in consequence, crowded from morning until night.

An irreverent fellow says that the two "boss" lectures of tho season will be those of "Bob" Ingersoll and "Harry" Beecher. Such familiarity denotes a lack of veneration. '5

Ash Wednesday this year falls on the 14th of February, which is also St. Valentine's day and the date fixed for couuting the electoral vote. Religion, love and politics all mixed up on the same day. +.

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The New York Commercial has discovered a "bachelor who remarked that he would never marry any woman he didn't respcct, and he certainly couldn't respect any woman who was willing to marry him."

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Every town in the United States of 1,000 inhabitants is having a theatre panic and if it hasn't any theatre it goes crazy over the exits to the churches, school houses, barns, wood-houses, and horse-sheds.

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A gallant New York laborer, in a moment of inspiration, laid his wooden snow-shovel across a Bowery ear-track, in order to enable a lady to cross without getting her feet wet. He had n9ver even heard of Sir Walter Raleigh, either.

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Do you reside in this city?" asked a masked man of a masked lady at a masquerade party the other evening. He felt sick when she said to him in a low voice, "Don't be' a fool, John I know you by that wart on your thumb." It was bis wife.

It may now be furtively hinted that, after serving the flesh by The Day's Doing, helping the devil with The New Sensation and generally aiding the world by sundry other periodicals, Mr. Frank Lsslie has taken to the cervlce of God in The Sunday Magazine.

It has been remarked with great truth that "a man's worst difficulties begin when be is able to do as he likes. So long as a man is struggling with obstacles he has an excuse for failure or shortcoming, but when fortune removes them all and gives him the power of doing as he thinks best, then comes the time of trial." \tf

Mr. Henn, the conductor who was in charge of the train wrecked at Ashtabula, returned to bis duty last week. As his train neared the new bridge he grew so agitated that he grasped a seat nervously for support, and as it passed off the bridge said: "Thank Qod I'm over, and now I'm not afraid to go over it a thousand times."

A community to cure by "criticism" is established in New York. The plan is to surround the bed of the sick member and tell him of all his faults, until be is thrown into a profuse perspiration, and thus recovers. There has been no opportunity so far to test the pror ess. They either do not take sick, or tb prefer, if sick, to crawl out of sight and take the chances. 'j

A reporter on the St. I^ouis Times in speaking, of Maggie Mitchell's performapce, used the phrase, "many pithy reraarks,'' and the totally depraved com positor set it up "many filthy lemarks." The coroner's jury has not returned a verdict yet on the case, but the police regard the slaughter of the printer as so excusable that they have released the reporter on his own recognisance.

Henry Ward Baecher bad a peculiar experience in Richmond, Va. The propie were prejudiced against the old anti slavery leader and the Plymouth pastor, and they didn't believe be would draw. On the night of the lecture large crowd collected in front of the building, but everybody seemed afraid to enter until some bold spirits took the lead. Then the hall was soon filled The audience was cold and unsympa thetic, but Mr. Beecher warmed the people up, and they soon became enthuaias tic in their applause. The papers next morning admitted that Mr. B. was an eloquent and entertaining speaker.

Feminitems.

Parthenia Slicker is a Pittsburg soprano. Jennie June says bracelets are little wofti, except by young girls.

Cardinal red, so long worn, is replaced by light colors, such as pale rone or pink coral.

The ex-Empress Eugenie has rheumatism just the same as any ordinary mortal. 'r

A gentleman said, when a pretty girl trod on his toes, that he received the stamp of beauty.

A French Paragraphist says: "I like a girl before she gets womanish and a woman before she gets girlish."

The Cincinnati Commercial says that the mother of Clara Louise Kellogg was a professional spirit medium some twenty years ago.

A young lady at Corintii, Miss., has the photographs of seven rejected suitors hanging on the wall, and she wants an eighth as to make a nice group.

When the curtain arose in Pittsburg, the other night, the audience that should have greeted Janauscbek was so invisible that the lady refused to appear on the stage.

Jenaie June says Miss May is brokenhearted. She ought to be thankful for her escape. It is better to eat filberts with a gentleman than to feed on venison with a hog.

You can gecerally tell what kind of a woman she is by the way she shakes hands. If she doesn't help you to shake it is a chance if she wouldn't be liable to let go, as a helpmeet.

A lecturer on optics, in explaining the mechanism of the organ of vision, remarked, "Let any man gaze closely inte his wife's eyef and he will see himself looking exceedingly small."

Mrs. Partington is in Washington, the wife of a very wealthy contractor. She has been explaining why she had not been able to receive calls. "We are building an extenuation to our house," said she.

ANew York lady was surprised on the occasion of her wedding the other day, to receive as a present an article of silver that she had presented to a bride six months ago. This shows how hard times are. tfc'fOHrcftih

Brooklyn Argus: Seal skin sacques for poodles are coming into fashion. A lady carrying a canine pet thus attired called yesterday to comfort a poor woman who had lost two children by starvation. The sacque was cut Pompadour.

At the annual meeting of the Unitarian Society in Peterborough, N. H., recently, it was stipulated that Mrs. A W. Jackson, wife of the pastor should occupy the desk a number of times during the year. She has relieved her husband from this duty at previous times, very much to the satisfaction of'the society. iWitvy,

Among the most recently discovered population of the savages, the cannibals of New Ireland, In the South Seas, there is a custom which requires that a chief's daughter shall be kept In a cage within her father's house until her introduction into society. The cage scarcely gives her room to move, and she cannot leave it during any part of the day, though she is allowed to take a stroll with near relatives after nightfall.

A Boston woman believe* that she would die at once if she failed to kiss a cross at exactly twelve o'clock every night. So precise is she as to the time that she has a costly clock in her room, regulated every day by a skilled workman, and servants awaken her at five minutes before midnight. At the instant the clock Indicates twelve she kisses the cross and is thus assured, she thinks, of living another day.

Appleton Journal, speaking of the fact that fashion sanctions revelations of figure, says of the old fashioned short dress:—That would be a singularly immodest woman who should appear to d.y at an evening party in a dress of tnis character but if the fashion were revived and in a bevy of a dozen young women there was one who refused to adopt the style on account of modest scruples, would not this fact seem to advertise which of the group bad thought most of the subject, which had associated with the garment questionable ideas?''

Susan Sbrock had the reputation in Pritcetown, Ky., of being a wonderfully trustworthy fortune teller. She was not an old hag, according to custom, but rather young and pretty. She predicted that C. Lewis liollingsworth would meet death at the hands of unitnown men on the highway, and that his horse would return home alone, and that bis body would never be found. A* few days ago be started on a horseback journey, and soon his horse came back riderless. His wife was grief stricken until she learned that Susan bad also disappeared, and that her husband had take a his beat clothes and all the money he could acsumulate. Now she is searching for his byly, but she expects to find it alive, near by 8usanv

MODES OF COURTSHIP. An Israelitish widow had, by law, a power of claiming in marriage the brothor of her deceased husband in which case, as the privilege of the male was transferred to the female, that of the female was likewise transferred to the male. He had the power of refusing the refusal, however, was attended with U. some mortifying circumstances the women whom he had thus slighted was to come unto him in the presence of the elders of the city, and to loose the shoe from his foot and spit in his face. A cus- Softool somewhat similar to this remains ,* at present ainon^ some of the Iudian tribes. When a wife dies the husband is obliged to marry the sister, or, in his stead, the woman whom the family of the deceased wife shall choose for bim. A widow, is also obliged to marry the brothers of the deceased husband, if he a it re an is age to have any. Exactly tne same thing takes place in Carolina Islands and there the women may demand such

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brother to marry her. In one state of New Granada, the right of asking is^'* promiscuously exerted by both sexes who, when they feel the passion of love, declare it without the least embarrass- iy, ment and among the Cossacks the same thing.is said to be carried still further, and the women more generally court tu-'. than the men. When a young 'woman falls in love with a man^ she is not in the least ashamed to go to his father's house, and reveal her passion in the most pa- 4.« thetic manner and to promise submisa^ft? sive obedience, if be will accept of her

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for a wife. Should the insensible man pretend any excuse, she tells him she is resolved never to go out of the house r. till he gives his consent and, accord-» ingly, taking up her lodging, remains there. If he still obstinately refuses her, his case becomes exceedingly distress-^ ing the Church is commonly on herr?p side, and to turn her out would provoke ft/, all her kindred to revenge her honor sol that be has no method left but to cetake^n. himself to flight till she is otherwise!^ disposed of. As the two sexes in Oreece Whad but little intercourse with eachoth-1 er, and a lover was seldom favored with an opportunity of telling his passion to|y his mistress, he used to discover it by inscribing her name on the walls of hisH house, on the bark of the trees of a publie walk, or the leaves of his book it^ was customary for him also to deck the, door of the house wheVe bis fair one lived with flowers and garlands to make libations of wine before it, in the^y" manner that was practiced at the templey,,, of Cupid. When a love aft'air did not! prosper in the bands of a Greek he did&? not endeavor to become more engaging, in his manner or person to lavish his?yu fortune in presents or become more :t obliging and assiduous in bis addresses,yv but immediately had recourse to incan tations and philtres in composingandv dispensing of which the women of Thecalo were reckoned the most famous, and drove a traffic in them of no inconsider-i able advantage. Theso potions were given by the wvinen to the men, as well by the men to the women, and were generally so violent in their operation. ., as for some time to deprive the person-, who took them of sense and not uncommonly of life.

HOW SENATOR NYE VANQ UISIIED CHARLES SUMNER. [From the Boston Transcript.]

The following story illustrates the wit and common sense of ex-Senator Nye, of Nevada: "The question under debate was a bi'l to admit the Chinese to equals

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rivilegesof citizenship,and Mr.Sumner the floor, His speech was, as usual, elaborate, studied, and classical, his periods rounded, and his arguments

There is an unusual interest manifested in kitchen maids by the young mtm of Memphis, Mo., caused by a state-, ment in a local paper that a young lady, heiress to flO.OOO, is working as a domestic in fiftnily there.

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fully up to the standard of the Massa- 1 chusetts statesman and sckolar. His for the children of the Flowery Kingdom was earnest, and when Mr. Sumner concluded it was evident that he I had made quite an impression upon the Senate. At this juncture, so soon as Sumner had taken his seat. Mr. Nye sprang to his feet, was recognized vy Mr. Colfax, the President of the Senatet and spoke somewhat as follows: 'Mr. President—I was born in the good old county of Steuben, in New York State, and raised upon a farm.' My parents were hard-working, thrifty people, fearing God and performing their duties with a good conscience. We had morning and evening prayers, in which was always offered an appeal to the Almighty for the freedom of the slave. My oed mother, God blesa her, was a careul housewife, and among other standard •. American delicacies doughnuts were alwavsprovided. Weall liked doughnuts, and I think the American farm boy that don't like doughnuts is hardly to be found. I often watched my mother when she made the dough, and kneaded and shortened it until it was in fitoondition. Mr. President, the result of my observation was that she always took a small piece of the dough and fried it in the fat before she risked the whole batch! She tried it first and awaited results. I have listened to the eloquent speech of my friend from Massachusetts on the Chinese question. I live on the Pacific Coast and know the Chinese??k ibetter practically than any onecan knowjaso them theoretically. They have nothing in common with us. Tbey save their* earnings, and then return, pigtail and t1 all, to the Flowery Kingdom. You cat* not make a citiaen of a man who will not sacrifice his pigtail! We have enfranchiaed the blacks—tbey are now frea

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and citizens, and I am content.' Then turning to Mr. Sumner he resuti\ed: «s 'My friend from Massachusetts has mado an exhaustive and able argument, but I, 4 suggest to him it is far better and safer to 'fellow my good mother's example, a little piece of this suffrage and fry dough before we risk the whole Chinese batch t' The effect of this speech was marvellous. Mr.Sumner leaned back in bis chair, laughing until tears ran^i' down hia checks, the Senate and galleries joining. His labored argument hadu been demolished at oce fell blow bv the doughnut simile. Doughnuts and: the sacred rights of citizenship combined were too much for him. He could neither retort nor explain, and the consequene was, the bill failed through the bomelv argument of the doughnut in the hands of Nye."

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