Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 7, Number 41, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 April 1877 — Page 2
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1ERRE HAUTE, APRIL 7, 1877.
NEGRO MINSTRELSY£
A Glance at its Origin and Growth—The Plantation Darkey—The Genteel Colored Qentlemau—The Song and Dane*
Man, Etc. This lack of familiarity of tbe people of tbe north with tbe mann9rs, customs and habits of tbe slaves of tbe south made, many years ago, "negro minstrelay" a popular form of amusement. The eccentricities and native humor of the race, as understood by people who had never seen them as they existed, gave pretext for an exhibition of burlesque terpsicbore and melody viewed in the mirror as held by Christy's or Eph Horn's minstrels. The life of the slave was principally monopolized by an indulgence in vocal efforts descriptive of the glories of liam-fat, the remainder of tbe time being devoted to tbe highly eccentric and muscular terpsichorean monstrosity known as the "essence of old Virginia." The performers, arrayed in garments of uncouth cut, gave only simple ballads, commemorative of "jailer gals" and the eld plantation. The spread of intelligence and tbe general exhibition of the inwardness of s:ave lite may have been the direct means of making tbe revolutions that obtained in tbis branch of tbe amusement world.
Tbo change was gradual, but effective, and the uncouth garments, the simple choruses, the primitive "Jim Jump Crow," and the amusing "essence" were displaced by the sable semi-circle in full evening dress, the artistic rendition ol operatic selections by trained and highsalaried vocalists, the modern nuisance ot apathetic ballad, and, horror of horr®rs. the ''song and dance man."
It Is a fact that the d^y of minstrelsy has MM. With tbe amalgamaion, so to (MA-UK, of the two races,a familiarity is bred with tbe habits of the colored man, and the charm of novelty is withdrawn from the production. Tbe plan tation darkey wno sung about haui-fat and danced the essence, Is a thing of the past, and "Old Black Joe" traveling back to Dixie is an absurdity and an anomaly in the present day.
It was only by a peculiar combination of circumstances that negro minstrelsy ever obtained a foothold, and with tbe disappearance from the exhibitions of the last hint of nature, its demise is something not be deplored, if not actually hoped for.
The modern vaudoville, or variety •how, now leads the van, and will strut its hour befo:e biing euo:eeded by something newer and brighter. Tbis form of entertainment, once considered disreputable, now has a place in the popular heart. But there is a dash of bitterness in this cup of sweet. The "fiddle" may be hung up with tbe banjo the "essence" shall mildew in forgetfulnoss, the bones crumble in neglect, and the tambourine remain silent and mute, but tbe flip flap artist will remain with the public like Adam a heritage. He is to day a loature of the variety show, nigntly in a thousand halls in tbis broad land, a "chord" Is given by the orchestra, and the "Glue Brothers" prance to the front. In a nasal "bare-of-tone" thoy warble:
We have come out to sing a Eong, [Three steps to tbe right.) About a rl we love. [Return to place of beginning.)
Sho Is the falrefct one In town -.m* [Both hand-spring.) UShe is my turtle dove." [General agitation of the feet and abusa of the stage and oxit.)
Encore. Enter one brother alone. "Ladles and gentlemen, I will now sing one of my favorite ballads." lie begins:
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llark I hear the angels sing." Euter other brother, who slaps the singer upon the head. Both fall and continue to tumble in a ridiculous muso.ilar manner that speaks well for their ouduranoe. The base drummer keeps a close eye on their movements, and adds rolat to the occasion by the introduction of vigorous notes in time with the falls.
Then tbe auiiienoa yells and applauds, and these two j*oung men come outaad earn their salary by additional falls and kicking of each other.
Now of conrse there are exceptions. There are a very few gentlemen who give an agreeable and admirable performance, but ten will cover tbe entire number. It Is the "gang" that is here spoken of. It is a numerous "gang." There aro oertainly Ave thousand of them. They are, as a rule, young men too lazy to work and too Ignorant to hold a position if they were bull-dozed inta accopting some kind of honest employ* ment.
A sample conversation with a brace of thtfin: The Glue brothers are standing in front of a saloon. You approach and remark How are you, Glue brothers?"
We are blooming, oull." Where are you playing now Up at the sweat-box engaged for de «-«MiHon, cull wo paralyzed 'em the first
What act are you doing now The finest In the land—Little Sue, cull—we do the funniest falls of any one in de business. Come down and see us. 1U11 (the other brother) is falling out of a three-story fahi, and I am doing it from the fly with a bass-drum in toy hands." .... "By the way, what become of Andy McKee, [or tome other notable performer]?" "Why, the 'ham' is playing in New York. Do you know, cull, that I put that feller in de business. Learned him his first step. Now he's too toney to notice me. I'll get even with him, thmiah, voo bet."
At so on. You will find that the "Glue Brothers" were the godfathers of nil the performers of note In the country Thev will concede that they themsalve* do the •'finest aet In the eountry."
week, when :ey get in reality *15. The gong-and d*nce man has a high
heart aud draws
Sihund^S hi. nifblly frndMio.
CUL.1 SARV I2JTKLLJQSSCS. (New York Herald.)
down and hug the beans.
Mrs. Biber's bouse was bnilt upon a reclaimed marsh below Center Station, Oakland, California, aiul bar husband was in a cold, wet graVeyard. Her heart was true to hHn and to the fapr cherubs he had left behind hint, the oldest fourteen and the youngest in the cradle. A white card outside the door proclaimed that the widow's property was for sale. On January 25th a goodlooking man of pleasant address, attired in a coarse check shirt and canvas pantaloons, a rough coat and army Drogans, called and offered to buy the bouse. He said be was a miner who had begun digging as a son of toil on tbe arid plains of Ariaona, and now was worth |100,000. He was lonely and solitary and wanted to settle down and have a home. She sighed, made a torching reference to tbe wet cemetery and to the four cherubs, said that she, too, was lonely and solitary, and sighed again. He said he would buy the house, and then went out to get his supper. In the evening he returned, and she entertained him with fathomless sighs and desultory conversation after the manner of Mrs. Nickleby. He asked her to marry him and she said she would. The next day—it was Wednesday—they went to San Francisco and were married. For two days she was happy, notwithstanding tbe ominous remarks of one of the cherubs who had surreptitiously examined bis stepfather's pockets, "He ain't dot no dold in 'em." On Friday her broth-er-in-law discovered that her husband was a lunatic from the Napa Insane asylum, who bad a wife in Fruit Vale, and whose Arizona mines were the inflated currency of a diseased imagination. She turned him out. On the next day the lady from Fruit Vale called to say that Mrs. Biber was tbe fourth widow with landed property who had been deceived by the crazy miner. Mrs. Biber sits iu the parlor over the reclaimed marsh, sits by the window, and counts tbe pools of water on tbe moorland, sits by tbe bour and thinks of the moist cemetery, sits and weeps and scolds the cherubs.
ENOCH ARDEN ONCE A GAIN.
He Returns After Thirteen Years to Find His Wife Married Again.
"A most singular history of man and wife on the Enoch Arden style comes to us from a neighborhood in Barren county, Kentucky. Thirteen years ago a soldier went forth to do battle for the cause he believed to be his country's, leaving* a wile and two ehildren. The wife beard, as she supposed, authentically of his death, and a few years ago married a clever citizen, and has been living happily and comfortably since. A few days since the long absent husband walked in and explanations were in order. She told her truthful story, which was acceptable to the newly returned, but long since mourned for dead, husband. He in turn related his history briefly, stating that after the war ended he heard she was dead and that be had settled down and married another wife, and that not long since she had died and he had concluded to journey back to the old homestead, and arriving in tbe neighborhood heard that his long mourned wife was living. He visited her and after a friendly talk he left, giving her and her husband to understand she could live with whichever man she pleased. She took the matter under advisement, but had not made up her mind at last accounts.
A JAPANESE LEGEND. From the Catholia Standard. The Japanese have a curious legend of a stonecutter, who became disco atented with his lot in life. He first expressed the verv common wish, "Oh! that I were rich." Tbis being granted by the gods, he next wished to become a king, so that he might have power. In this station he still found a source of discontent to, er many changes, he wished to become a rock, which even the floods could not move. This being granted, he. for a time, enjoyed his newly acquired power, for neither the burning sun, rushing wind, nor roaring flood had power to move him. Bat, one day a man with a sharp chisel and heavy hammer, ca-re along, and began to cut stones out of tbe rock, ana the rock said: What is tbis, that the man has power over me, and can cut stones out of my bosom I am weaker than he I should like to be that man!" And then came an angel out of heaven, who said: "Be this as you have said," and the rock became a stone cutter, and he cut stones, wi»h hard tabor, for small wages and was contented.
A PUZZLE IN ARITHMETIC. [Nassau Letter In Boston Traveller.] Here comes the arithmetic puzzler—a young colored scamp, who must have been born multiplying or dividing—with the conundrum, "What two whole numbers, multiplied together, "make sev en?" We guessed and guessed, and then got mad and swore it couldn't be done. After we bad abused the urchin to our heart's content, he quietly remarked that his mother said if she had a child four years old that oouldn't tell, she would send him back to school. We "went for" him, then, and, just as we were about tearing him limb from limb, he yelled out "How much is seven times one?" ________
A London journal tells the following story: "At a Washington tea party, where General Butler was recently a guest, the hostess, glancing over the table, perceived his cap unfurnished with an important implement, of which be was supposed to aporociate th* value. "Why, General Butle-," she exclaimed, In a little womanly flutter of consternation, "havent you a spoon?" "No, indeed, madam!" quickly responded the
Sapplng
»nerai, springing from his seat and h.s pockets one after the other, "upon my word, madam If you dont believe me, madam, you may search me!" Tbe applause which greeted this spontaneous sally "may be more easily Imagined than described." j®
THE STEPS REG ULA TED.* [From Dcmorest's Monthly.] Word comes to us from Paris of a recent contrivance of the modistes, by which tbe long trains and collant dresses are to be retained in position. A strong elastio is attached to one garter, just above the knee, carried over, and fastened to the other thus tbe length of tbe steps taken by the wearer is regulated, andthe classical folds of the costume remain undisturbed. W
In noticing the death of Mr. VanderbiltThe London Spectator says: "In America it Is not considered quite right to make a will without charitable
be fulfils expectations.
A
VILLAGE congregation in Vermont wan disturbed tbe other Sunday during the momentary stillness following tbe opening prayer, by a voice from tbe adjoining dwelling exclaiming, "Mary, where the nails?" Soon the answer came, "in the ooffee pot, you fool."
TERRE HAUTE
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UGLY PEOPLE'S 'COMPENSATIONS.
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It is generally considered very fortunate to be beautiful. And it is a dread fnJttfCsfortune to bave a ^1° fee** are apt to think that nothing can compensate an ugly person for the lack of beauty. Ana therein are we mistaken, for tbe compensationa of ugly people are many and varied.
An ugly man is never asked to figure in tableaux. Nobody insinuates that dear little George or preciouR little Laura resembles bim, with the expectation that ne will open his p*cket-book and bring them a present for tbeir likeness to himself.
He is not eritreated to sit fort is pho ograpb, and so escapes tbe greatest misin the world, next to toothoulling.
The ladies do not make him baldheaded by requisitions for »he locks of his hair.
He is not asked to weddings where he is expected to present the bride with fifty-dollar salvers in exchange for tough pieces of plum cake.
The girls of tbe period are not dying to rub their powder oft on the shoulder of his coat iu tbe "mazy dance."
He does not have to dye bis mustach, or curl his hair, or wear stays to keep his waist' from growing out of shape and be can humor his corns with No. 10 boots and nobody will be presenting him neckties and embroidered watchcases, expecting diives in the park and tickets to the opera in return.
But an ugly women has fven more compensations than an ugly «ia». She la never married for her beauty and neglected for a younger woman when her beauty begins to fade.
She can spend her time in other business than that of admiring herself. She will not be extravagant in lookirg-
Men will not be pestering her with compliments and billet doux The women will like her and make much of her, because they will not be jealous of her. A pretty woman, you know, always detests another pretty woman.
Nobody will be insinuating that she has "faded." Nobody will be scanning the corner of her eyes and mouth in search of wrinkles. Nobody will hint that she paints.
And when she grows old there will be no struggle, as every woman who hes been pretty knows to her cost.
Tbe ugly woman is not ashamed of her birthday. She doesn't bave to tear the record out of the family Bible. She' can sit quietly at her work and hear unmoved the tramp of the years as they go by.
It is the hardest thing in life for a beautiful woman to grow old to note daily the fading o' the plumpness and bloom of youth, and to feel entering like iron into the soul the dread conviction that pearl powder and rouge can never replace the lost freshness.
You may laugh at her, you ugly women and you careless man, but just wait till you have been a pretty woman yourself and see how you will feel.
But the ugly woman has no tears to shed over lost loveliness. Frequently years make her better looking, aud even if they do not, she has always the consolation that where one possesses nothing there is nothing to lose.
ONE VIEW OF THE TRAMP TIESTION. The following extract from Dr. Holland's "Nicholas Mintuin" (Scribner for April) contains the experience of many. It is Glez9n who speaks: "When I came to the city," he said, "I was full of a sort of chicken hearted benevolence. A woman or a child could not extend a hand to me on tbe street without taking from my pocket whatever I might happen to have there. I comforted myself ovei the loss of many a good cigar, with the thought that I had helped somebody to bread, when I helped them to beer, and did my share toward making worse and more incurable beggars than they were before. They soon found me out in my office, where they managed, by the most ingenious lying, to cheat me out of my hardearned dollars. I became at last sere with my sense of imp sition, and sore with my ^ai-ritioes, and I've not recovered yet. I cun look a beggar in tbe face now with»ut winking, and when a deadbeat presents himself in my ofllce, I have only to glance at mv and point to the door, and bo unfit -Unds me, and retires without a word." "But you can't afford to become ^latrustlul and hard-hearted like that, you know," said Nicholas in atone of expostulation. "A man can't afford to shut himself up like that, and look upon every needy fellow as a scamp." "You can't afford It, perhaps I can and there, by the way, lies the tiouble in the case. Rich people, surrounded with their comforts, try to make themselves more comfortable in their minds by sharing a portion of their wealth with the poor. Their dinners taste better after having fed a beggar. Their nice clothes feel better after they have given an old garment to a dead beat, who straightway pawns it for rum. Society cannot afford to have the vicq of pauperism nourished for the BmaU compensation of gratifying the benevoleut impulses of the rich. Does pauperism grow less with the -Is it not becoming, with every benevolent effort, a great, overshadowing curse Pauperism grows by what it feeds on, and it feeds on the benevolence of the rich, and on benevolence which, like some of our
Christianity, is fashionable* „4
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THE LITTLE SOCK.
It is oulv little sock. It is empty and silent. Mother sits with it in"her hand and weep*—weeps over a little empty sock. To her it is garden in which tJ-e flowers have withered—a casket from which tbe jewel has been lost—a setting with tbe diamond gone. It Is not silent to her it speaks the tendered pathos it thrills whh its eloquence it charms her with a tale ot blighted innocence and sleeping beauty. She never tires of listening to its vorceli»«« voice. While it tells of baby's loveli ness, of its smiles as mother peered into its blue eyes, of tbe glow of promise that seemed to light up its brow as she sang and rooked it to sleep, of the little casketandth? slumber of death, of tbe tinv grave among the snowdrifts on the hill-side which will soon blush with the roaes mother will cause to blooTQ, she listens with a devoted attention that no orator could command and no melody would secure. Her raven locks may yet be hidden by tbe snows of age—the years mef brush the rosy blush and beauty from her oheeks—with tottering litn sand faded sight she may ait down bj the roadside, as the last moment of three score years and ten leaves its wrinkle upon her brow, to wait for the summons to call her benoe, but she will take the little empty sock,snd kissing It with tbe tender love of fifty years before, listen again to ite eloquent story, and with a joyful smile upon ber thin and shrunken lips, exclaim: "I will soon be home with baby." This is a mother's love—deathless as the soul, changeless as the eternities.
URDAY EVENING MAIL.
NEW RULES FOR GOING TO |f sleep: 1. Fix tBe thoimbt* tiling. If ynu can't do
on two things REx You ca easily untied hem sf er yob dnce^get to sleep. 2. Don't go to sleep with your head down against the foot-boarn, ®r your feet dangling on tbe floor. It disturbs the electric fluids. 3. A writer recommends to suspend a base-drum over your bed, within your reach, and pound on it with your fist. It will induce sound sleep. 4. lilmg the eye-balls is good, except lor blind people. Rolling out of bfd may hescbs ituted in such cases. 5. The Jtinier in filing asleep lies principxlly in the distance you fall. Those who aie subject to such should have a rope ladder convenient to climb back on. 6. Dining late is a poor way of anodviirg. In order to fall asleep with dispa eh, don't at anything the day pre-
USE OF WOMEN'S SKIRTS. N. Y. Graphic.
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hide shapeless ankks. To collect mud and tilth.
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out quickly and benefit dry goods men. T« make walking a hard task. To make going cut of church a matter of fear and trembling lor a man lest he put bis foot on it and rip a 5100 silk and ruin the effect of a beautiful sermon. To make women the first to stumble on stairs and choke passageways, as was tbe case at the Brooklyn Theatre and St. Francis Xavier's Church.
"Madame, did you ever lift a dog by the tail?" "Why, no, you cruel thing, you." "I didn't know, because I just saw you carry your little child across a gutter by one arm. A dog's tail is a good deal stronger than the ligaments of a baby's shoulder.
Dr. King's New Discovery..
The World's Great Cough Medicine. Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption will cure a cough in one half the time necessary to cure it with any other medicines, and it does it not by drying it up,-but by removing the causes, subduing the irritation and healing the affected parts. For all cases of hoarseness, suppression or loss of voice, any severe chronic or lingering cough, bronchitis, or affection of the throat and lungs, it will be found to far surpass all medicines that have ever before been offered to the public. It has wrought a complete change in the cough medicines. Is entirely different from all others. Is perfectly harmless to the smallest child. Trial bottle#free. Regular sizes $1.00. For sale by GROVES & LOWKY. (2)
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OHN T.SCOTT,
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Ofllce over Tutt's Shoe Store, Main street between 4th anrl 5th streets, south Fide.
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Office, LIXTOX MAJfSIO*, Southwest corner 6th and Olilo Street^' Offlce hours from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. and from 1 to 6 p. m. S Practice now limited to diseases of the
EYE and EAK.
R. J. MILLS
would most respectfully announce to the citizens of Terre Haute and vicinity, that be has opened, on the corner of 18tn and ChestHUt streets, a Me.: leal Office, where he will treat all classes ofChronic and acute diseases, of both sexes, In the most scientific aud successful .manner, either with »r without electricity.
Offlce aud residence on corner of 18th and Chestnut streets, three streets east of Vandal!a depot. Visits made to the country, if required. (febl7-ly)
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Buys hogs every day in the year, "cash up and no grumbling." Offlce on south Feurth street, one half square south or the market house, one door south of Ht-ndersrn house. All 1 ask is to try me. Trade with me ouoe and you will trade with me again.
'BARBERS. NDBEW RODERUa
THIS POPULAR EAST END BAI SHOP Has removed to the neat 11. tie room formerlv occupied by Dr. Byers and auaehed to vVoodrufl grocery store, on the corner of 12th and Main, where his many customcre can And him as usual—sociable aud ready to do the best of work In his lino at all times. He also makes a specialty ef a hair restorative which he warrants in all caseg.
OMETHING NEW.
MR. LAWRENCE, the well known Barber, between 6th ana 7th, on Main, has removed his place of business to the second door east of 6th street depot south side, where he has opened a Restaurant, Lunch Counter and Barber Shop and would be £leased^oseejillJii8^)ldjjnMids ___ _i__
MARBLE WORKS.
J. W. BARNETT. W. H. PALMER. M.A. SWIFT. ARBLE WORKS.
BARNETT, PALMER & SWIFT, IMPORTERS AND DEALBR8 IN
Rose
and
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Gray Scotch Granite
AND ITALIAN MARBLE MONUMENTS, Tomb 8, ad Stones, Vaults, Man tela. East Main street, between Twelfth and
Thirteenth streets, TERRE HAUTE, IND.
All work wa.ranted to give satisfaction.
The Swiss Ague Cure
SiKVKK FAILS!
It is the Beat Wvcr Rpgiilater anil lilood Ptiriflrr. It Speaks for Itself all over tho Land.
Read the followiugtestlmoiiials concern ing its worth EVANSVILLK, I ml., Dec. 5,1876. Dr. J. Houriet, Terre Haute,
Dear Sir: Your medlciue, the Swiss Ague Cure, sell belter than any other patent inodidne for lever and ague to ray knowledge, and today 1 have to order a larger quan'ity to support the demand for it.
Please send me one gross of the smaller (50c) size «nd iwo dosen of the larger (dollar size. Send asioon asyou can. Respectfully,o1* -Uj-, WM. WfcBER, Drugg
MATTOON. Ills., Dec. 7,1876,
I have sold the Swiss Ague Cure for two months. Have beard no complaint from customers It gives good bath faction. Pleasusend me one dozen of the dollar size.
CALVIN MOORE, Druggist. PARIS, Ills.. Deo. 2,1870.
I have sold eight dozen bottles of Swiss Ague Cure in 20 days, and it has given good satisfaction^.,
HUNTER,
druggist.
I PARIS, Ills., Dec. 8. l«76.
We nave sold eight duzen bottles of Swiss Ague Cure in 20 days and it has glvan good satisfaction to our customers.
I K. P. SHAW A »ON, Druggists. I PARIS, I lis., Dec. 3,1870. .. I have sold the Swiss Ague Cure for the last four mont lis. It gives general satisfaction to our customers. When taken according t. directions it i» a sure cure.
EDMUND FA RIB, Druggist. MATTOON, 111., Dec. 7, l87fl.
We have been selling Swiss Ague Cure for some time, aid bave heard no complaint frem any source,and our sales on the sa.me are on the Increase.
Send one
case of dollar
bottle size, and oblige W. R. 4 H. P. COPPAGK, Druggists. 1
MATTOON, Ills.,Dcc.o.i£76.
We hare sold Swiss Ague Cure the fm't season and it has given satisfaction, fcend.,,, onedezen of dollatfsize.
OBLINOER& WEAVKR, DniggKls.
4DMINISTRATOR'S
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the
undersigned administrator ol the estate of A Hi An WOODM^NHEE deceased, will oflfti' fr sale at auction, at tbo Court House door in the city of Terre Haute, on Friday, the 13th day of April, 1877, the following described real estate situated in the city of Terre Haute, Vigo county, Indiana, to-wit: A part of out lot number fo, said lot having a front of 106 feel on 9th ft street.and Hi fe«taud, 3 lachei on Moflatt street, and 2 f) feet on 5th street, and will be •old tn two lata if deemed advisable at Uie "TERM!?1^? SALE: One-third cash, the residue to two ^qoal payments at slx jwad twelve months witn note* at Interest, waiving benefit of appraisement laws, and secured by pood freehold «utitk-s. begin at 2o clock p. M. DAV IU'".'•v' Mi^eb 17-4t. Administrator.
WHOOPING 00UGH.
Dr. Detchon'f .?
Whooping Cough Mpecttto cures this dibease la one week's time. If used generally, it will «ave the lives of hnndreds. Do not let your child die of whoopiug cough wben one bottle of thisSpecine wlircureit. It moderates all the severer symptoms thin Jhe first twenty-.our hour* For sale bvBbNTIN ft ARMBTRONO,Terre Haute, Ind.