Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 7, Number 44, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 April 1877 — Page 1

Vol. 7.—No. 44.

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR TIIE PEOPLE.

SECOND EDITION.

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KUTS.

Wheels area great convenience roads area necessity—and T. T. has never yet uttered, and never will utter a word against horses. But if wagon and carriage builders did not think it necessary or desirable to place the wheels of all vehicles at the same distance apart, and if roads were not a necessity and we could always take whatever route we pleased to a desiredpoint, and if horses wore so unlike men as to be as willing to strike out anew triuk each for himself, as to follow the footsteps of preceding horses, ruts would unknown, and what an amount of wear and tear, wrenching, breaking down, and upsetting, stalling effhorses and sweating of men, would be avoided. But with the prejudice against short outs across wheat and oorn fields, meadows and lawns, with the obstinacy of the wagon builders and -with the depraved humanity in horse-? flesh, ruts seem to be a necessary evil of civilization. Being necessary, the true philosophy is to make the best of them, and the very best use ever made is the figurative, whereby they a remade to represent, as nothing else can, the habit of continuing to do as bos been done before People at first drive in a certain place, a good place it may be, possibly the best place, and then, they themselves and whoever else chances to go that way, drive in exactly the same track, even long after muoh driving, or a change of I roam stances has made it a bad track, possibly ft dangerous one. So men follow customs—some of them, at certain times or under certain circumstance, good ones—uutil they become bad, evon dangerous. And one of the greatost benefactors is the man who can got society out of the ruts to which it has become accustomed, although, in the effort, ho willofton break a wheel, and will always causo an uncomfortable jostling, and as soon as out of one set of ruts It will begin to cut new ones. Just now the new President is getting the government out of tho roT.moAr, ntrrs In which it has been running, and the question is, will he break down the party, or get it upon a track upon which it will run with less wear and tear, and so last longer. There can bo no doubt that somokind of military supervision was necessary direotly after the collapse of the rebellion, and, possibly, even dur log all of the previous administration, but it is timo to try auother tack, or, to •tick to tho flKuro, to cut some new ruts. Thero are plenty of Republicans ready to swear at the jostling which the effort causes, and of Democrats who want to see the wholo thing break down although it is tho very thing for which they professed to be laboring during all the campaign. But the great mass of Democrats and Republicans sincerely hop© that tho wheels of Uncle Sam's carriage may get safely out of these ruts, and are hoping that Mr. Ilayes will prove a skillful driver. Upon the whole T. T. thinks the Democrats and radical Republicans have behaved remarkably well. Now that T. T. is upon the subject he would suggest that it is possible that thero are some ruts in our city politics which might as well be abandoned. JBoth parties might as well discharge aome of their drivers, and get in their places those who will try new roads, or different parte of the old onee or if the old drivers are retained let them try the experiment of reining the horses a little to ene side or the other.

T. T. begaa this article chiefly to get himself out of the rut in which he has been running qf late on religious matters, but even at the risk of getting back again, he cannot refrain from saying that one of the geod results of the Revival is, that It got the churches oat ofthe

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Mr. Hammond caused a tremendous jostling, and at first the best people, many of them, didn't like it. But now the wheels of the churches are running easier and faster than before for a long time, and each driver oeems to be trying,

in a good natured way, to find the beet track to put the horses on their mettle! The preaching is out of the old ruts. The prayer meetings are out of the old rets. The church music is out of the old ruts. The social gatherings are out of the old ruts. The Sunday Schools are out of the old ruts. Of course all these will soon begin to cut new ruts, and in the end it may be as difficult to get them out of the new way of doing things, when this is used long enough, as it Was to get them eut 6f the old. But it is all right now. There are also

KUTS FOR SINGLE TEAMS.

A great many men get into ruts, and women too. Men do business in ruts. The man has started with a new idea, or a good one, and he has stuck to it till it has been worn out, and yet he goes on in the same old rut, and that too when his neighbors have all found a better way. Men get into personal habits that it would be well to change. It is hard to make the change, but they would be more agreeable, more useful, and happier, if they would change. Home life runs in ruts. The same old kinds of food, and prepared in the same way, appears at regular intervals. The same style of clothing is worn. The same subjects are talked over. The same amusements are adopted. The same guests are invited, and the same visits made. All goes on a hum-drum way, everything domestic runs in the same old and deep ruts. The children and young peo"ple get tired of these ruts, and get away from home to get out of them. T. T. advised frequent efforts to get politics out of the ruts, and religion out of the ruts, and personal life out of the ruts, (especially out of the rots of bad habits,) and home life out oi the ruts, and to get out of the ruts generally.

Husks and Nubbins.

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A WORD TO THB WISE.

That there is an excessive amount of litigation in this country nobody (except perhaps a briefless lawyer here and there) will deny. The courts are always crowded and the dockets so large that they cannot be disposed of in a reasonable time. The wheels go grinding on but the hopper is always full and running over. First the legislature increases the number of courts and then the number of judges. Our judicial system entails a fearful drain upon the industry ofthe people. Costs accumulate with a tapidity that is absolutely appalling and many a man in a lawsuit finds himself in the condition of the hunter who wanted some one to help him let go of the bear. He would be willing enough to quit if he could but there is no such tiling as letting go. Once in, he has to go through, if only to fight clear of the terriblo mountain of costs that threatens to bury him. Doubtless something, and perhaps a good deal might be done by lawyers and judges towards preventing the accumulation of costs so rapidly, and every honost attorney ought to keep this object steadily in view, but when all is done in this direotlon that can be done, lawsuits will still be expensivo and litigation ruinous.

The true remedy is not to be sought so much in the reduction of costs as in the diminishing of litigation. And how is this to be done? Men do not usually go to the law exoept to obtain their rights, or what they conceive to bo such, and to secure these is the fundamental object of jcourts of justioe. Attorneys could giro their clients some wholesome advice just hers if the latter would profit by it. But it is little needed. The mistake which most peoplo make is in thinking that they have no neod of the services of a lawyer unless they are sued or find it necessary to sue some one else. In other words, when they become involved iri litigation they begin to inquire where the best lawyer in town keeps his office. They shun the physician until the case is desperate and perhaps beyond his skill to cure. A gieat part of tho litigation thai burdens the courts might and ought to be spared, and would be if men would attend to their business properly in tho first place. They pay large attorney's fees and enormoua bills of cost in order to avoid paying a small fee for the advice of competent counsel in the transaction of important affairs. To one familiar with the loose and slipshod method of transacting business that prevails the wonder really is that there are not more lawsuits instead of fewer. It is the common experience of lawyers that people never think they owe an attorney anything until he has tried a case for them in court. Advice and counsel the majority of men seem to think ought to be as free as the wind of heaven. They lay a complicated matter before their lawyer, consult with him by the hour, force him to examine a dozen law books and cudgel his brains over the knottiest ef problems, to pay him for his time and trouble only with the promise of a retainer "In case they should get into trouble." And so the lawyer's living is made to depend on the happening of the very event which he is expected te do his utmost to keep from happening!

People complain that lawyers foment dlsoonl and encourage litigation. There

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is not much truth in the charge but there might well be more. No man cares to work for nothing and naturally thinks of his pay when employed for any servioe. The lawyer thinks of his fee and who oan blame him for it? His own livelihood and that of bis family depend upon the earnings of his profession. When he knows he will be paid he brings all his faculties to bear upon his work and does his utmost. When his reward is uncertain or contingent it would be asking rather mere than human r.ature can give to expeot him to work with the same energy and spirit. Men sometimes complain that lawyers give them no satisfaction. They are generally the ones who go to their attornew with an empty pocket. They oould get a great deal of satisfaction if they were willing to pay for it. It is related of Abernethy, a famous physician inhis time, that a miserly fellow once in vited him to dinner, having an ingenious notion that he would get cheap advice. After the dinner was served and eaten the host began telling his distinguished guest a great many symptoms that occasioned him much uneasiness and inquired what the doctor would recommend him to do in such a case. Abernethy coolly replied that he would recommend him to go and consult some physician, and straightway left the house. Gentlemen of the legal profession are too often called on for important counsel without even the meagre compensation of a good dinner.

What we said on a previous occasion we reiterate hero now, because it will bear more than one repetition, a vast amount of unnecessary litigation would be saved if men would get into the habit of consulting oompetent lawyers in every important step they take in business and pay them liberally for their counsel and advice. There can be no doubt that the most valuable service an attorney can render is to assist men so to transact their business that they will seldom come into the court* either as plaiutifEs or defendants and so be spared the trouble, anxiety, expense and loss of time which are inseparable from legal proceedings and'this service he is to render in t{ie quiet of his office. In this direction lies the true method of reforming the.abuses of litigation. 'ti

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DEATHS.

At Praireton, on Wednesday of last week, Mrs. Frances A. Ball, wife of Dr. Lawrence A. Ball, died of congestion, in the 49th year of her age.

William P. Bennett, one of the oldest and a most respected citizen, one who, in the early days took an active part in the affairs of our young city, died last Sunday after an illness of several months of consumption,

Camillus S. Lee died of consumption, at his home near Lockport, on Monday. He was thirty four years of age, and leaves a wife and several children.

THE City Election occurs next Thursday and promises to be one of the quietest the city has recently known. The newspapers aeem to be disposed to let the people alone to vote as they please. This is well. The tickets in the field are composed of good men—mostly well known citizens, and The Mail, for one, is not disposed to dictate how our people shall vote. There is no earthly reason why national politics should obtrude upon municipal affairs. Vote for the best men—those who will best enforce the city laws—those who will exercise the the utmost economy—those who will be faithful in the discharge of the duties to which they are intrusted. Let every citizen cast his vote. If all citizens—especially the property owners —vote on Tuesday, we have no fear but that good offioers will be selected to take charge of the municipal government.

REV. MR. BARTLETT'S lecture, at the Opera House, under the auspices of the Y, M. C. A., Tuesday evening, called out a large audience. The lecture was brim full of brilliant thoughts, bright diamonds, but there seemed to be a lack of method in their setting. There was more effort to make happy bits and toarause, than to instruct or draw out a lesson. Still it was so full of interest as to hold the audience in closest attention for an hour and a half.

THE young ladles of Plymouth Chapel, corner of 13th and Poplar streets, will give an ice cream lestival next Tuesday evening. The admission has been put at 15 cents, which includes ice cream and cake. There will also be fruit and confectionery tables, lemonade, etc. The object of this festival Is to raise funds to fix up the Sunday School. The successes of former entertainments at this place area sufficient guarantee that this will be an enjoyable aflhir.

THE salesmen at Hoberg, Boot A Oe'a have acoepted a challenge from the "Buckeye," salesmen to play a game of base ball. It is supposed that all the dry goods houses will dose in honor of the event. 9m m*?

THE reported death of Jadge Lw, at Lockport, we are glad to learn is incorrect. He has been quite ill but is now in a ftdr way tor recovery.

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A tailor stales that there are 1,000 stitches in a dress eoat. It wouldn't seam sew.

Di Murski's ex-husbands wander around the world and plaintively m|Umur, "We are seven."

It is when a youth attains to the dignity of keeping a mug and brash at the barber's that he feels the stirring within blm of an assertive manhood.

He Tpas a solemn looking traveler, and he walked through the depot sing idg "Heaven is ray home," when one of the boys called out: "Then you are going th4 wrong way, stranger this is the train to Syracuse."—[Rome Sentinel.

Holmes remarks on the wonderfas provisions of nature there is not eren lefi a narrow crevice under a flat rock without a thin black bug prepared by Providence to fill it. It's the same way when vacancies occur in official position. —[)ja Crosse Free Press.

Some of the papers are printing reasons why plants should not be kept in bed rooms at night, but none of them hit the right one, which is that they're mighty unhandy things for the bare legged head of the family to fall over when he tumbles out in the middle of the night after the paregoric.

At a concert the other evening a bouquet was handed to Ole Bull, and when he re-appeared in response to an encore he had a large white rose in his button hole. With the first vigorous movements of the bow the rose went to pieces and as the leaves fell to the floor, he, unconscious of this, struck up "The Last Rose of Summer."

It now turns out that John Quine.y Adams gave the oredit for his long life, among other things, to the fact that he every morning walked in his bed room for half an hour with all the windows open and without a stitohof clothing on. If men and women seek longevity they should try this plan, however ludicrous the sight might be in a large and well regulated family.

A gentleman traveling in Ohio some years ago turned in at a country tavern for dinner. The bar-room was garnished with a dirty wash-basin, apiece of soap the size of a lozenge and a square yard of crash dimly visible through epidermic deposits. Having slightly washed, the traveler eyed the rag doubtfully and then asked the proprietor: "Haven't you, sir, about the premises a this year's toweli '1 "People talk about waking up with a snap," says Mr. Murray of Adirondack fame. "Why, that is a horrible way to do it. I meta friend the other day who said, 'I always jump up with a snap, and got up with a jump.' Why, the sweetest experience in life comes to us leisurely. What would you think of the sun rising with a snap? Of rosos opening with a snap? Of a man eating beefsteak with a snap? Of a wife kiting her husband with a snap? wi t' .pim *t

Judge Gilbert, of Brooklyn, has recently announced a decision which entitles him to honorable mention. In that city a poor woman made a purchase of a sewing machine by installments, and had paid $80, when, on failing to make the last payment on the day appointed, was deprived of the machine. The woman brought suit to recover the money paid for it, when the Judge ordered that she be paid $S0 with interest, gave the agent a sound talking to, and ordered the execution to issue forthwith, although the agent asked for delay.

The proprietor of the St. Charles Hotel,'in New Orleans, said to a correspondent the other day: "Before the warour bills for wine alone would often foot up $1,000 a day. Now if we sell twenty dollars' worth of wine a day at our table we think .we are doing very well. The young bloods always kept their own exclusive bottles of brandy on ice in the bar rooms. French brandy generally, at ten dollars per bottle. The planters always settled their bills monthly they never disputed a bill. They never paid the money, but would give an order on their factors. Neither the planters, their wives, their sons nor their daughters carried money about them. What they wanted tbey ordered, and the bills were sent to their factors. The factors imported dresses and jewelry for the ladies direct from Europe. There were several Barrow brothers, who owned between them nine sugar plantations, with thousands of slaves. Tbey, with their families, would often occupy as much ss a third of the house, with private parlors, Ac., and their ordinary hotel bill would be $4,000 or $5,000 a month." ru®

MARRIAQE LICENSES. The following marriage licenses have been issued sinoe our last report

Samuel A. Hunter to Bmma French. Joseph D. Murray to Bom M. Downs. R. M. Hasket to Harriet B. HuMrtim arm Christopher D. Smith to Letitia Green. Samuel Parry to Minnie Hall. John Smiles to Mary A. Clark* t*ua mf. .V»i. ifMN 4said 5 tmrn

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No well bred tramp will eat lemon pie with his knife.—[Whitehall limes. Extract from a letter in a recent breach of promise case: "My ewnest own."

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Narrow-gauge dresses on broad-gauge women don't look well.—[Easton Free Press.

The breath of beauty now betrays, in addition to the usual balmy fragrance, a love of young onions.

When Kate Claxton registers at a hotel now, the landlord fumbles nervously among his insurance papers.

Miss Dickie Lingard (now Mrs. Dalziel) has abandoned the stage, her time being wholly occupied with the cradle.

Dr. Mary Walker always steps around the corner when she wants to get into the baok pocket of her pants.—[Bridgeport Standard.

Boston women are protesting, in the columns of the local papers, against the practice of Boston gentlemen of smoking on the publio streets.

There is one sad thing about the victory which Mrs. Myra Clark-Gaines has won in New Orleans. She is too old to ask a husband to enjoy the result with herself.

The Binghamton Republican says that an old lady, just before her death, in that city, took off and gave to her daughter a pair of ear-rings that she had worn 82 years without removing them, her father having given them to her, when she was six years of age.

Miss Jennie Collins, of Boston, the working girls' friend, gives some startling samples of snop girls' wages in that city—twenty-five cents a dozen for fancy aprons, two days' work, and twenty cents a day on an average at some bet* ter kinds ef work.

A woman recently entered a store in Connecticut and sat down in front of an iron safe to warm her feet. After sitting some twenty or thirty minutes, she remarked that she "never did like them kind of stoves—they don't throw out scarcely any heat, those gas-burners don't."

A Canadian schoolma'am thus addressed her big pupils: "I have whippad a booby soundly, which pleasure cost only $3.50. Now, if any others of my scholars are inclined to imitate him, they will have the kindness to step forward, receive the money and the flogging, and then we will go on with our studies. I am here to instruct you, not to be courted."

The ugly black waterproof,circular is a thing of the past. That which has taken its place may be used in stormy weather and for travelling cloak as well. The cloths generally used are plaids or solid colors of dark gray, brown, plum or blue. It is made very nearly Jclose fitting in front, but without a dart with three Beams in the back it nicely fits the figure, and makes a good looking as well as serviceable garment.

AMUSEMENTS,

We are having quite a season of rest in the way of amusements. Next Thursday evening, Messrs. Earle and Anderson have their joint benefit, at the Academy qf Music, with promise ofthe most enjoyablo amateur entertainment yet: given.

Cal Wagner's mi fistrels will be at the Opera House, May 16th, and Joe Murphy on the 23rd and 24th.

On the 16th of June, Rom Eytinge will appear at the Opera House, in the character of "AUss Multon" in the well known play of that name. The Boston Traveler speaks of her appearance in that city as follows:

There has, perhaps, never been witnessed here a better exhibition of the power to portray repressed emotion, than was shown by Miss Eytinge in the play of "Miss Sarah Multon while the intensity of utterance, gesture and ao tion as she declares to the second wife "Mathilde," "lam Fernande" was absolutely grand. After witnessing the performance of "Miss Sarah Multon" it is not difficult to understand why Miss Eytinge has gained the place she holds in popular favor, nor how she is able to hold it successfully. It is the first time she has been seen here at her best, and ihtro can be no doubt that those who see'h«r in this play will decidedly modify the opinions they formed after witnessing ner previous performances. Scarcely too high praise oan be awarded her, especially when it is remembered that in this play "Miss Moulton" is not only the central figure, but almost the only figure, snd on her the attention is riveted from the beginning to tho end, so completely does she fill the stage and th$. eye,of tho spectator. (Wilis fSiiJ

CHURCH NOTES.

Rev.W. McK. Darwood will preaeh at Centenary church to-morrow morningon "Man as God Created Him, 81n Rained Biro, and Christ Redeemed Hi m.n The evening subject will be **A Word to Skeptics."

Baptist chureh—€. R. Hendemn, pastor. Morning oervloe 11am theme, "Christian Liberalism." Evening servioe in Dowlfnc Hall at DDL Conscience."

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First Presbyterian cbtuch—Al*x. Stmett, pastor: (Services memlng and evening. The evening service will be a gospel meeting Intended especially for young people.

Presbyterian Cb arch—EdwardW.

Abbey, pastor. »ervlcgi to-morrow as usual. Preacmagat 1030 A Sandajr .School at MOP Mission School—North ith street,

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Feminine foolishness^-frlzzing* false fronts. Mrs. Commodore Vanderbilt is the richest widow of her age in America.

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PEACTIOS VS. THEORY. Stebbina waa walking down town yesterday morning.

Mr. McPeters was going up street. ,.,,i A car had run o£g the track just below, 1 and McPeters had been standing looking at it when he started on bia way, therefore, he was on tho outer side of the walk.

Just as he got under headway he met Stebbins on the same side of the walk coming down.

They stopped, facing each other. McPeters bad often laughed to see men meet and both dodge the same way at the same time and then dodge back* agaiu in their efforts to get by without^ collision.

Mr. Stebbins had frequently remarked that if a man had sense enough to stand still the other fellow would turn,, out, and the parties could pass without^ making themselves ridiculous.

They both had the 'presence of mfud to think of this grand truth at the same,*, moment. "Standstill," said McPeters to himself, and see how easy this trouble is overcome." "As you are," murmured ^Stebbins, firmly, thinking how he would brag over the matter when he went home to dinner.

They stood like a couple of Bengal tigers, glaring at eacbjother. Determinanon was in the eye of McPeters. Per-' tinacity gleamed steadily from the orbs of Stebbins.

It seemed a good while, but it was probably not more Ithan half a minute, when it oocured to'McPeters that he was just as big a fool for standing them waiting for Stebbins to move aside as he would De to move himself.

At the same Jinstant it occurred to .. Stebbins that there was more than one way to make himself ridiculous, and he would step aside, informing the famil when he got home that the plan wou work.

So Stebbins stepped to one side. So did McPeters. Stebbins hurriedly stepped back. McPeters was there before him.

What do you mean, sir said Stebbins, frowningly.

what dojyou mean quoth McPeters, defiantly. Well, now, turn out." said Stebbins

Turn out yourself," said McPeters I'll be if I do it again," said Stebbins.

You can do as you please," responded McPeters. I've turned out al) I'm going to." "It's a pretty how-d'ye-do fir you've got to stop'a man on the street this way," said Stebbins.

Who stopped you on the street V' returned McPeters. You did, sir."

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"S'lie, sir!" Stebbins is a sensitive man, and he would't take this. He- ran against McPeters, intending to walk over that gontlemen, but the latter seize*! him by the throat and pushed back. Thereupon hauled off and gave McPeters a fearful dig in the epigastric region. This arousea McPeters, and he responded by striking out at |Stebbins* proboscis. There was a lively time around there for a few minutes, when the boys who had collected, hollered |"p'lice, and a peeler coming up separated the furious men and marched them'off. When about a block away a halt was made and the matter talked over. Explanations followed which resulted in the release of the prisoners and mutual apologies.

Mr. McPeters will not laugh so loudly hereafter when this subject comes up for discussion, and Stebbins, it is safe to say. did not discuss the absurdity of such meetings with his usual cheerful-

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Perhaps ho may journey along this way one of these days and we may bo doing our people a favor by putting them on their guard. This is the way it was done, as teld by the Cleveland Sunday Voice,*

On Friday some men in this place were swindled out of about sixty dollars. A. traveling Sharper drove into town and stationing himself near the Ashtabula House, offered td sell a ten dollar bill for nine dollars and seventy-five cents. He then put up a five, a one, then sev-enty-five cents, and last fifty cents, selling them all twenty-five cents below par. Men began to grow happy and thought what a splendid thing it was to, stand on Main street and DUV good money at a discount of twenty-five per cent. Under this delusion they were ready to buy when he offered "gold" rings for ten cents apiece. After be disposed of these he gratified their avarice^ still more by handing back their money and letting them keep the rings. By this time the eagerness of the men increased and tbey felt as if the opportunity was not to be classed among the. lost. He next took some sleeve buttons, for which he asked one dollar, and baving worked these off refunded the mon-. ey. Having been successful in gainings, the affections of his customer* thus far, he began to increase the value of his gai stock in trade, and said that he had some splendid geld watch cbaina which he would sell for five dollars apiece. Tho country gentlemen expecting to have their money returned as before, were veiy willing to buy, and he had no difficulty in disposing of about a dozen. But now he changed the programme 1: "Gear and oooly said: much obliged to you for your patronage liberal

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up the reins and drove off, leaving "a wonder stricken crowd behind him. The,' watch chains were not worth more than* twenty-five oents and he gained over fifty dollars by the operation. There, may be some broken heads If anyone offers to sell watch chains on the street, again or even give ten dollar bills away^