Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 7, Number 33, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 February 1877 — Page 1

Vol. 7.—No. 33.

Summer aie heard

Ooyou know that the frost strips the leaves from the trees. And that naked they sway to the chill, winter breeze That thro'all their bare branches seems sadly to Ming: "When, oh I when will the sunshine return with the Spring?''

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

SECOND EDITION.

Writ ten for The Saturday Evening Mail.]

DO YOU KNOW:

(We desire to cull particular attention to the exquisite little poem printed below. Nothing more touchingly beautiful 1ms »ver appeared in these columns. %Ve do not envy the man or woman who can read it without emotion."" The initials signed to it will le recognized by many as those of a once brilliant Journalist who formerly made Tern- Haute his home, and whose memory is still cherished by a host of warm personal friends. The sorrow* that have touched bi:n during the two or three years past can only vaguely be guessed, but they are doubtless accurately typified in the similo of the front, and the mystery In which they are nhrouded will only lend a deeper and more melancholy interest in Ihc poem to those who know tlie writer.—ED. MAIL.]

I 0 you know, little darling, my love do you know How It chills the bright sunshine to greet the cold snow Do you know that the brooklet's sweet music Is lost, When it feels the cold, deadly embrace of the frost? lo you know iliat the Autumn blasts banlsh eath bird, Whose gaytougs thro'the bright days of

Do you know that t!..e Autumn flowers 'never urow old, liut are killed In their growth, by the sting of the cold io you know the red tide from a volcanic fountain la soon frozen to stone by the ice on the mountain That the hot seethingflood from the crater is hurled To be Chilled when it reaches the cold, outer world Yes, you know, liltlo darling, full well do

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All the blighting effects of the cold and the snow And you know how the heart's warm emotions are chilled, And tlio fair flowers of love, tho' they may not be killed Hv Incessant colllsien with merciless frost, Have their brightness nil faded, their fragrance all lost. Yes, you know and I feel how the pitiless cold fone heart makes another feel weary and old. Feel so weary, so old, and so hopelessly sad That all brightness and goodness seem turned tethe bad. C. H.A.

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Town-Talk.

THE LATE OL'TRAOK."

On Monday forenoon, after the morning services at Centenary church, Messrs. Hammond, Martyn, Darwood, Abbey, and perhaps half a dozen other zealous christian gentlemen who are actively engaged in the revival work now in progress in this city, called at a number of tbo drinking saloons and invited the proprietors and bar-tenders to attend the meetings. This proceeding on the part of the gentlemen named has been variously commented 011 and, lu some instances, severely criticised—chiefly, it it is fair to say, by persons knowing very little about the actual circumstances. People who are naturally a little prejudiced against the demonstrative sort ot Christianity that characterizes this and most other religious revivals, and who have a too handy faculty of reaching a conclusion which suits them, at one jump, without waiting for or weighing Huch trifles as facts and evidonco have promptly, in their own minds, fram&J a picture of the visit to this

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real to them tlmn any verbal description of it could be and been quick to express, in round terms, their decided disapprobation. Most likely the reader of this at tide will be able to call to mind one or more instance iu which the matter has been condemned iu his presence. It is possible that he himself may have spoken disparagingly of it, and felt every wort! he uttered. He may have said it was a species of 1 ulldozing which was likely to bring religion into disrepute, and which tio existing circumstances could in any tuanuer justily. lie may have denounced it as a meddlesome, impudent picce of ofliolousnoss, and an interference with private rights which was simply outrageous. T. T. has heard it as strongly spoken of as this, several times.

But T. T. also knows that much of this feeling has its rise in prejudice that lu reality the visits were made In a kindly, gentlemanly way, and with an evident earnestuess of purpose, that could not have been either embarrassing or offensive to any mm in his senses, who witnessed them. There was not manifest the shadow of an I-am-better-than-thou demeanor. No reference whatever was made to the disreputable or sinful character of the whisky business no allusien to it, save when the saloon-keeper himself made It necessary by a remark of his own. The visits were simply a series ot friendly calls on a class of men popularly (and T. T. thinks wrongfully) regarded by society as a species of outlaws. Such a series of visits to men in any other line of business would have excited no remark. It is because society outlaws the saloonkeeper that such viei,ts are regarded as

improper by those very fastidious, white-blooded christians who are now kicking up the greatest fuss about it and deploring the danger of the chris tian religion being brought into disre

Well, if he is an outlaw, and his business so far removed from the legitimate pursuits of life that he may not be visited in a friendly way by decent people, it is surely high time that something were done for his reclamation. But if he is an outlaw, who is to make the first advance? and how is it to be made? The influences that usually surround an outlaw do not impel him to go to church, or to make the personal acquaintance ol clergymen. But if the clergyman show a friendly (not a patronizing) interest in him, and go so far as to visit him, and tender a personal invitation to him to return the call, why is not that a christian and commendable act? He need not be so ostentatious about it as to embarrass the man that would be wrong but he may, and should, be willing, unaffectedly, to take the man by the hand, treat him as a brother, and help if he oan in his regeneration. This is christian duty. And this is exactly what some of the home clergymen of this city are attempting to do—doubtless what Mr. Hammond, also, is desirous of doing, -j-

The false argument is frequently made that the minister who visits tho saloon is trespassing on private rights that he is taking an unwarranted li-berty in coming uninvited where he is not wanted, and where his presence is regardeo as an obstruction to business. "What would church people say," is the cry, "if the saloon keepers were to band together, go in a body to some church, interrupt the services and prefer a public request that the congregation come down to some one of their places of business, in the evening, and sample several casks of fine liquors just received from abroad?" Well, T. T. has no doubt that the church people would be very—much—astonished, and no doubt that quite a number of them would go. But for all that, isn't there some difference between an invitation of this kind and an appeal to men to forsake their sins and accept Christ as their Savior? In the conduct of the present revival, there may bo honest differences of opinion on questions of expediency. There oan be none, among believers, in regard to the importance of the main point— the conversion of sinters to a belief in God and a sincere purpose to serve him.

But sifted right down to actual nuggets of fact, are not the objections chiefly of a personal nature Do they not come, in a majerity of cases, from men who have a private and unacknowledged personal reason for not wishing clergymen of their acquaintance to drop in at unexpected and inconvenient times (for them) at saloons where there would be constant danger of their being caught in the embarrassing act of taking a drink T. T. means, do not the loudest and most emphatic of these protests come from the back-door customers of the places visited—those contemptible hypocrites who publicly abuse the whisky business and privately encourage it by their cash patronage, and whom the saloon-keeper himself must most heartily despise for his craven bypocraey T. T. inclines to this opinion.

Notes of Revival.

Public interest in the revival meetings continues to increase, and the Opera House isn't large enough to hold the crowds tkat gather overy night. The day meetings are well attended and the fact is obvious to the most perverse opponent of such movements that great good is being accomplished. i-

Mr. James Hudson, who for many years has been locally emiaeLtui a confirmed spiritualist, though not training with the Pence Hall crowd, has been a regular and interested attendant at all the revival meetings and Friday, being called upon by Mr. Hammond, aro»e and addressed the audience in the most feeling and sensible manner. He did not acknowledge conversion on his own part, but was pleased to see that much good was being accomplished. lie knew he was looked upon as entertaining views antagonistic to the revival ^rork, and many no doubt thought him cold and indifferent to all such services. Those who do think so do him great injustice. He believed that all who attend the meetings cannot fail to be elevated and made better by the influence they encounter.^-

On the invitation of Superintendent Daily, Mr. Hammond, accompanied by eight gentlemen and about thirty-five ladies, went out Thursday and held a meeting at the County Poor Asylum. The services were exceedingly interesting and unexpectedly fruitful in results, a number of the unfortunates f-bowing deep teeling and proving by their conduct since that the meeting has done good.

At the "inquiry meetings," when one of the solicitors (as it were) runs across a stifl-neoked individual who says, "Hold on a bit let's argue (his matter/' be drops bim like a hot potato, instantly

recognizing the unpleasant fact that he has caught a Campbellite. Argument, with the people of that faith, is a weapon which never fails them, and which they are always eager to use.

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Is always mild, propitious, and humble. Plays not the tyrant, plants no faith in blood Nor bears destruction on her cliarlot-wheels But stoops to polish, succour, and redress, And builds her grandeur on the pabllc good."

Rev. Stephen J. Bovell, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Ashmore, with his wife, has been attending the Hammond meetings during the week.

Bayless W. Hanna, the Okaw preacher, attends the revival meetings—and anything else that affords him spiritual entertainment.

The pastor of the Christian church is Peale-d for the fight, but Mr. Hammond has not as yet knocked the chip off his shoulder. \v

It's me and Jesus" with him all the time, is the irreverent criticism made by a well known citizen on a prominent revivalist.

Rev. James Piper, of the Charleston Presbyterian church, has been attending the revival meetings this week. S

Rev. Robert Mitchell, of Kansas, Ills., brother of Dr. Mitchell, of this city, has also been taking notes. "v, ''V '•jr 1

A party of female evangelists were skirmishing around the streets yesterday for lost sheep.

Rev. Mr. Donham, of St. Stephen's, views the revival with a critic's eye, from a distance.

Rev. Whitfield Hall, pastor of the M. E. church at Catlin, has also been studying the revival.

Not less than four hundred conversions have taken place since the revival began.

Over three thousands persons attended the meeting at the Opera House Sunday nisnt. "4 rfi- Jv

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The Rev. Mr. Vandursen, ol Paris, Illinois, is also an inteiested spectator. The collections at the Opera House average about $17 an evening.

The Davis Family will sing at the Opera House to-morrow. There will be no meeting at the Opera House to-night.

Rev. C. H. Foote, D. D., of Evansville, came also. ?$ 4*5*^ "For virtue's self may loo much zeal be had The worst of madmen is a saint ruu mad.

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Personal. 'IT

J. K. Graff has returned from Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Edward *E. Law are in the city.

R. C. Carleton went back to Indianapolis Monday. Mrs. Alice Allen Rockwell returned Thursday to Iudianapolis.

Petor Staff is looming as a Republican candidate for City Marshal. Bert McCormick, of the Vandalia, has been appointed train dispatcher.

Mrs. Elizabeth Desart left Wednesday to visit her daughter, at Cleveland. George Clayton has enlisted as a salesman with D. C. Greiner, as he sails.

Mrs. and Miss Hodge, of York, Illinois, are in the city visiting friends. Miss Sue Williams l?ft Monday to visit her brother at Independence, Kansas.

Will Sherwood, formerly a Torre Hautean, is revisiting friends in this city.

W. H. Jackson, of Fentonville, Mich., is visiting the family of Mr. I. H. C. Royse.

Mr. Duncan Jewett, of Paris, Texas, a son of the late Rev. M. A. Jewett, is in the city.

John Cory has been admitted to the bar and received a notary public's commission.

Lawrence Hudson is doing the shorthand work at the revival meetings, for the Gazette.

L. Felsenheld, the dry goods prince of the Marble Palace, went to Cleveland, Wednesday.

W. A. Melick has opened a fruit and vegetable stand, corner of Fourth and Cherry streets.

Mrs. C. H. Humaston is visiting her father in New York and will be absent several weeks.

John O. Hardestj is engineering the "Johnson" State House plans through the Legislature.

Miss Jennie Wilson returned this week to the Western Female Seminary at Oxford, Ohio. 'Patrick Tanney has opened a new butcher shop in Fiedler's building on Lafayette street.

Mrs. Dr. Patrick left Tuesday for a tour weeks visit with her sister, at Perrysvllle, Indiana.

Mr. Luther Hager, Chairman of the Fire Committee, has been in Chicago to examine hose reels.

It looks like it will be Edwards and Edmunds—don't get the names mixed in the race for Mayor.

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TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 1877. Price Five Ccntt

Mr. Samuel Hunsaker, of Paris, Illinois, is considering the matter of a removal to this city.

Mrs. P. P. Nichols and two children are visiting the parents of the former Palestine, Illinois.

Mrs. P. L. Mayhew and little daugb ter, Gertrude, are visiting the family of Mr. A. E. Rabbins.

Soma of the Terre Haute "cops" vent down to attend a policemen's ball at Evansville last night.

Mrs. Robert Ostrander is suffering an attack of pneumonia, at her residence, 218 north Fifth street.

Honry Ramme, Chief of Fire Department, went te Chicago, Wednesday night to look at hose reels.

C. Kafader has removed his grocery store to the Archer block, corner of Fourth and Cherry streets.

A masquerade surprise party made a descent on the residence of ex-Mayor Thomas, Wednesday evening.

Mrs. Laura Laycock, of Gosport, is in the city, the guest of Mrs and Miss Alexander, north Seventh street.

Goorge North has broken loose again. His latest pronunciamento is a denunciation of the "property qualification."

Miss Mamie Dowling, accompanied by her mother as far as Columbus, returned Thursday to school at Oxford, Ohio.

Mrs. Con. Cronin and husband will open a millinery establishment on Fourth street about the first of March.

After a two months drive overland, T. J. Forrest reached Tampa, Florida, in safety,and is delighted with everything.

Dr. Mitchell got somewhat confused at the depot Tuesday, and sent a young lady to Florida, on a Boston throijph ticket.

Mr. Daily, Superintendent of the County Poor Asylum, informs us that he is at present taking care of 105 iu mates. A

J. W. Roberts is preparing to open a wall-paper and hoKse furnishing store on Main between Eighth and Ninth streets.

Burns & Baker is tho alliterative and euphonious firm name since John Baker purchased an interest in C. M. Burn's feed store.

D. O. Haywood, of St. Louis, takes Bert McCormick's place as yard cleik and telegraph oparator in the Vandalia yard, this city.

Robert Burroughs, of Albion, Illinis, who has been visiting his uncle, Harry Copelana, Esq., in this city, returned home Wednesday.

Mr. Allen A. Goble, of Texas, is visiting his uncle, W. W. Byers, Esq., in this city. The two had, no^ me^ for a

Miss Abbie Daniels, of Patoka, passed through the city Thursday, on the return trip to Oxford, where she is attending the West. Fem. Sem.

Somebody at the refviVal meeting the other night stole W. R. Shepherd's knife. It was an eight inch "bowie" with a buck-horn handlei

Mrs. W. H. Crawford was called to Princeton Monday by a telegram announcing the dangerous illness of her brother, Mr. James Ayres.

D. C. Greiner is receiving his stock of boots and shoes and next week his new store will be in full blast. It is an elegant looking business room.

William Henderson, formerly in the grocery business on east Main street is now in Texas and is said to be doing well. His family is still here.

J. P. McDonald has leased abd removed his family into the house recently occupied by Dr. Thompson, on Ohio street, between fifth and Sixth.

Mr. and Mrs. John Gray Foster are still in the city. The invoicing at the store was concluded yesterday, the net result proving highly satisfactorj

Peter Lawson, of Roseville, left this week with a through ticket for Gotten berg, Sweden. He will cross the Atlantic on one of the ships of the Inman line.

Mr. Ike Fecbheimer and his sister entertained a number of their friends Tuesday evening in honor of Mrs. Alshuler, of Mattoon,who is visiting in the city.

John Cain, the backman, wants it understood that he is for himself alone. This really looks selfish in John, but he's a very obliging hackmen notwithstanding.

A. I* Whitoomb, the well known merchant of Clinton, is preparing to remove to this city, having purchased an interest in one of our Main street business bouses.

And now Dan. Fasig is mentioned as a Democratic candidate for City Marshal. Dan. is a member of the firm of Froeb & Fssig, harness makers, and is a tip top good fellow.

Messrs. Wharton, Riddle fc Co. having resigned the agency of the Northwestern Mutual life Insurance Company, of Milwaukee, Mr. John T. Wiley has been appointed agent. His office is 517% street.,

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Mr. J. S. Jordan was stricken down last Sandsy with congestion of the brain. He is able to be up this morning, but has been very near .death's door.

W. A. Murphy, of Dan. Miller's Seventh street grocery, has a chicken with twelve toes and a double row of front teeth, Mr. Murphy is very much "stuck up" about it.

On the first of Msrch, I. K. Clatfelter wHl open out at his present location, corner Sixth and Ohio, a nice little stock of shoes consisting entirely of women's, misses' and children's wear.

Eppinghousen's corps of lobbyists at Iudianapolis consists of Messrs. Filbeck, Katzenbach and Scott,.of this city and Simon Hirsch, of Brazil. It is said that they are "making Rome howl."

This is the sort of cheerful little personal paragraphs that the Indianapolis Journal publishes: "Ben. O'Neil has gone to Terre Haute, where he has opened a faro bank. Wm. Ridgeway is also in the Prairie City."

The most popular young gentleman at the entertainment given by the Young Ladies Sodalty Society at Pence's Hall this week, was Mr. Timothy Dolan, bartender at E. W. Johnson's. .He was voted a six-dollar cake.

Having severed his connection with the widely known clothing firm of Mossier Bros., H. L. Mossier is new in Chicago and will probably go thence to Texas, where he was formerly engaged in business. Mr. Morris L. Mossier will remain in charge here.,'

Get up cow get out of papa's way," was the sweetly courteous remark addressed by Guf. Am, Thursday morning, to a recumbent animal that obstructed the side-walk. "Of all the joys that brighten suffering earth What joy is welcom'd like a new-born child."

Here is the organization of the "North Side" base ball club for 1877: Catcher, C. Ballew pitcher, Robert Franks short stop, Thomas Grace first base, E. P. Gifford second base, L. Duddleson third base, W. Hedges left field, D. Power center field, C. Stevens right field, Chas. Gifford.

Mr. J. R. Backus will address the Cooper Lyceum this evening, contrasting the old and new money system. Mr. Backus will continue the use of his, invisible cement patching, however, at his old stand, Main street, between Twelfth and Thirteenth. For bailly worn boots nothing equals it.

The House Committee on Education of the Indiana Legislature, consisting of Hon's. R. C. Foster, of Monroe C. Matthews, of Vermillion John Chawner,7of Boone Isaac Baumgardner, of Cass James L. Johnson, of Carroll, and John W. Houghton, of Marshall, were in the city Monds^y on an official visit to the State Normal School.

The Express says George Leek has a set of cabinet tools in his possession that have descended to him from three former generations. The tools are of the finest material. A little tennon saw is so fine that a reporter sawed apiece off a five eights bar of iron with ease. An attempt on the reporters cheek, however, turned the edge and ruined the saw. .!•,:

U. R. Jeffers fias si dog thai Is a credit to him—a dog that shows his careful training, and some .appreciation of the duties and responsibilities of life. The example that dog sets ought to shame some men we know of into comparative decency. He is an honor to his race. Now when that dog of Jeffers' steals a roast of beef, as he did last Sunday, he doesn't take it to some disreputable deadfall and trade it for whisky and gei blind drunk on the proceeds nor he doesn't carry it around aback street and present it to any of his frail female friends. He takes it home, like a man, to bis family—that is, Jeffers' family— and enjoys the reward of a clear conscience. Bring up a dog in the way he should go and when he is old be will not depart from it!

JyRATUSDUItINO THE WEEK. John Carey, an old resident, and for n»iny years an employe of the Vandalia Kiilroad ahops, died, Saturday evening, at bis residence, corner of Fifteenth street and Liberty Avenue.

News was received in this city on Monday of the death, in Winchester county, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, of Judge Jesse Conard, for many years a citizen of this place. The deceased is remembered by all the older residents of Terre Hadte, be having published the Wabash Courier for seventeen years and filled an important place in the society of the young town in that early day. He was eighty-three years of age at the time of his death. He was the father of E. W. Conard, of this city.

I sum McCloud, an employe »f the nail works, died very suddenly on Monday evening, with a congestive chill, He attended church the day before and was apparently in bis usual health.

Mathew Brown, of Walnut Prairie, Illinois, who formerly lived in this eounty, first.year.

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BALLS.

The" attendance at the Victor Manger benefit ball, at Turner Hall, Mondqy* evening, was quite large and of course financial success. Tho musie- was very fine, the people of the respectable sort,. and everything passed off pleasantly. The managers are to be congratulated on its success.

The annual masked ball ef the Maennerchor society will take place at Dowling Hall bn Tuesday evening next. It is the design to make it not only the finest ball of the season, but the finest one ever given by the society. If

A domino party took place at McBride's dancing academy last night. The calico masquerade ball of the Shaksperean Club teok plaee at Turner Hall Thursdsy evening. It is reported by The Express to have been "one of the most disgraceful affairs that ever occurred in the city so disreputable indeed that tho chief of police ordered those present to disperse before one o'clock. There was a large attendance, but the few respectable ladies had already left."

A musical and terpischorean entertainment, with a sort of "free lunch"' attachment, took place at Pence's Hall, Wednesday evening. It was given by the Irish Ladies Benevolent Society. The hall was crowded to its utmost capacity and the fun immense. The banquet was one of the nioest ever spread in this city, and the occasion one of the pleasantest.

MR. BEECHER'S route of seven weeks in the west has been published. He started at Oswego, N. Y., last Monday— lectured last nignt at Detroit—preaches in Chicago to-morrow night, and lectures there the evening following. He then visits the principal cities of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois, closing the last week with preaching Sunday, the 18th of March, at St. Louis, lecturing there tbo following evening, in this city next, the 20th, then to Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Columbus, Ohio, and home. Our city is particularly fortunate in securing one ot these dates, and we undertako to say in advance that no city on the route, in proportion to population will honor him with a larger audience. With tke vast multitude that will come in from the surrounding towns, eur people will fill the Opera House to overflowing. There is very general and eager desire toseeand bear the famous Brooklyn preacher, the most eloquent pulpit orator on this continent. One of our city pastors says rather than miss hearing bim he would give live dollars for a ticket of admission.

BEECHER AT CLEVELAND. [Special Telegram to the Commercial.] CLEVELAND, February 7.—The rush to hear Henry Ward Beecher lecture on the subject of "Hard Times," iu this city, to-night, is unprecedented In the history of lecture goers. Long before the ball was opened a large crowd had

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TJie Home Circle Club wound up their series of dances with a grand masquerade at the Terre Haute House last night. The attendance was large, the costumes unusually varied and handsome and the occasion generally voted the pleasantest of the season. Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Evansville, were -v well represented.

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thered, and wtien the doors were open the strife for admittance began. The reserved seats were all sold yesterday, numbering about 1,500, and hundreds who expected to get unreserved seats to-night were disappointed, consequently were not admitted. It is estimated that at least one thousand people were turned away. As high as fl tea dollars was paid for one sitting.

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tutorial in Chicago Inter-Ocean of Thursday.] ,r^ Every ticket to Mr. Beecher's leoture was sold yesterday before noon. An immense line of people was formed, and as fast as they could be supplied they were sent away, until all the tickets were exhausted. This was as we expected. But now we have a suggestion to uiske. McCormick Hall, large as it is, cannot hold a tenth of the people who desire to bear the great preacher. The proprietors of the Star Leoture course, having sold their tickets, can have no objection to Mr. Beecher's gratifying the va*t number of people who would like to bear him. Mr. Moodv has invited bim to preach In bis church on next Sunday, ana it is understood be has accepted. Whv not bold the meeting in the Tabernaile and give the peopie a chance to bear? We make this suggestion in behalf of thousands who most earnestly desired to attend Mr. 'f Beecher's lecture, but who will be unable to do sounder the circamstsnces, and whose only hope is the holding of services in the big temple on Monrce street. .....

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There will be tears shed in mauy hun- r"- -V dreds of households for the death from ,* croup of Mr. John Habberton's little -'.f- -. tboy "Toddie," with whose winning ways all of us have become lovingly *•, familiar in the pages of "Helen's Ba-, bies." Hia bright youvg life, with its joyousness aba its promise, ended suddenly last Tuesday and we utter the thought of all persons who nave read of him and bis pretty ways when we say that we mourn for him heartily and sinoerely.

THE spring style of hats for baldbeaded men will have a portion of the 4 top made of blue glass. It is said to b®,^. a sure cure for baldness. ....

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