Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 8, Number 2, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 July 1877 — Page 2
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THE MAIL
A PAPER FOR THK PEOPLE.
TERRK HAUTE, JULY 7, 1877.
THEY AND WE.
BY FANNIE K. TOWNSLEY.
They have but panned a corner Out of our sight: We, following on, shall clasp them
In realms of light.
We In the quiet suburbs Awhile remain Thev lu the Heavenly City
Kind endless gatu. We from onr ba»ement windows Ijoolt out with tears They in the Royal Chambers
Never know fear*. We,'mid the gathering shadows, Find sorrow's night Thev, In the fadeless glory,
See Christ, the Light!
We plead with faltering accents, "Help us to pray" They with a harp of glory
Give praise away!
We to the Lord are crying For his own rest They, \*ltli unbroken gladness
Lean on his breast.
We, by and by, the jortal8 Of Heaven shall win They with the olden welcome,
Shall bid asm!
I) UST SHALL BE UST.
[J im Panton, in San Francisco News Letter.] Man conies to this world without thinking Before he can think, out he goes While sleeping and eating and drinking,
His life hurries on to its close.
The sun Is too strong for his vision, Theelements laugh him to scorn The fates tie his hands In derision,
Twere better he never was born.
And yet, like a fool In his folly, He'd rather live on thau to die He even attempts to be jolly,
And smiles with a tear in his eye,
He hopes to liveon with Immortals, Forgetting that God will be Just Strong spirits may climb heaven's portals,
But dust shall forever be dust.
WH .'
Strength for to day is all that we need, As there never will be a to morrow For to-morrow will prove but anotner to
With its measure of Joy and sorrow.
Then why forecast the trials of life W th such sad and grave persistence, Aud wateli and wait Tor a crowd of ills
That as yet have no existence.
THE
Circuit Rider.
A LOVE STORY OF EARLY LIFE IN THE WEST.
BY EDWARD EGGLESTON.
Anther of The Hoosier Schoolmaster," End of the World," Mystery of MetropoliwiU.e,'' etc.
[The Circuit Rider was commenced in The Saturday Evening Mail. Vol. 7, No. 43 April 21. Back numbers can be had of newsd' alers, or at this office, or seut by mail for five cents each.•]
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE CAMI* MEETING.
The incessant activity of a traveling preacher's life did not allow Morton much opportunity for the society of the convalcscent Ann Eli/.a. Fortunately: for
when
he was with her out of meet
ing lie found her ruther dull. To all expression of reliacious sentiment and emotion she responded sincerely and with unction to Morton's highest aspirations for a lite of real self-sacrifice she only answered with a look of perplexity. She could not understand him. lip was 'so queer,' she said.
But people whose lives are joined ought to make tbo best of eaoh other. Ann Eliza loved Morton, and because she loved him she could endure what seemed to her an unaccountable eccentricity. If Goodwin found himself tempted to think her lacking.ip some of the highest qualities, hecomtorted himgelt with reflecting that all women were probably deficient in these regards. For men generalize about women, not from many but from one. And men, being egotists, sufler a woman's love for themselves to hide a multitude of sins. And then Morteu took refuge in other people's opinions. Everybody thought that Sister Meacham was just the wife for him. It is pleasant to have the opinion of all the world on your side •where your own heart is doubtful.
Sometimes, alas! the ghost of an old lev© flitted through the mind of Morton Goodwin and gave a moment's fright. But Patty was one of the things of this world which ho had solemnly given up. Of her conversion he had not heard. Mails were few and postage cost a silver quarter on every letter with poor people, correspondence was an extrava gance not to be thought of except on the occasion of a death or wedding. At farthest, one letter a year was all that might be afforded. As it was, Morton was neither very happy nor very miserable as he rode up to the New Canaan camp ground on a pleasant midsummer afternoon with Ann Eliza by his side.
Sister Meacham did not lack hospitable entertainment. So earnest and gifted a Christian as she was always weloome and now that she held a mortgage on the popular preacher every tent on the ground would have been honored
the giant Og, was provided for the col lective repose of the preaohers, of whom there .werejhalf a-do*en|preseui. It was always a solemn mystery to me, by what ingenious overlapping of sheets, blanketa and blue coverlets, the sisters who made this bed gave a cross-wise continuity to the bed clothhig.
This meeting was held just six weeks after the quarterly meeting spoken of in the last chapter. Goodwin's circuit lay on the west bank of the Big Wiakt River, and this camp-meeting was held on the east bank of that stream.
It was customary for all the neighboring preachers to leave their circuits and lend their help In a camp-meeting. All detached parties were drawn in to make ready for a pitched battle. Morton bad, in his ringing voice, earnest delivery, unfaltering courage and quick wit, rare qualifications for the rude campaign, and, as the nearest preacher, he was, or course expected to help.
The presiding elder's order to Kike to repair to Jonesville circuit had gone after the zealous itinerant like 'an arrow after a wild goose,' and he had only received it in season to close bis affairs on Pottawottomie Oeek circuit and reach this camp-meeting on his way to his new work. His emaciated faoo smote «Published In illustrated book form by J,
Morton's heart with terror, .The old comrade thought that the death which Kike all but longed for could not be very far away. And even now the zealous and austere young man was so eager to rfach his circuit of Peterborough that be would only consent to tarrv long enough to preach on the nrBt evening. His voice waa weak, and his appeals were often drowned in the uproar of a mob that had Mine determined to make an end of tho meeting.
So vio.ent waa the opposition ot the rowdlea from Jenkinavillo and Salt Fork that the brethren were demoralized. After the close of the service they gathered in groups debatina whether or not they should give up the meeting. But two invinciblo luen stood in the pulpit looking out over the scene. Without a thought of surrendering, Magruder and Morton Goodwin were consulting in regard to police arrangements. „, 'Brother Goodwin,' said Magruder, 'we shall have the sheriff hero in the morning. I am afraid be hasn got enough backbone enough to handle these fellows. Do you know him? 'Burchard? Yes I've known him two or three years.'
Morton could not help liking the man who had so generously forgiven his caniblingdebt, but he had reason to believe that a sheriff who went to Brewer's Hole to get votes would find his hands tied by bis political allian-
Ce*Goodwin,'
The returning scouts reported at midnight that the rufTHns, seeing the completeness of the preparations, had left the camp-ground.
only man
know
the
gang—of that class which hesitates between a lawless disposition and a wholesome fear of the law, but whose protection and assistance is the right foot upon which every form of brigandace stands. Besides these there were the reckless young men who persecuted a camp-meetingfrom a love of mischiel for its own sake men who were not yet thieves, but from whose ranks the bands of thieves were recruited. With these
last
Morton's history gave him a certain sympathy. As tho classes represented by the mob held the balance of power in politicsof the county, Morton knew that
he
had,not much hope from a trimmer such as Burchard. About four o'clock in the morning
one
of
the
The marauders rode on two by two, until the leaders, coming round a curve, caught sight of Morton and his right band man. Then there was a surprised reining up on the one hand, and a sudden dashing charge on the other. At the first blow Goodwin felled his man. and tho riderless horso ran backward through tho ranks. Th© mob was taken by surprise, and before the ruffians could rally Morton uttered a cry to bis men in the bushes, which brought an attack upon both flanks. The rowdies fought hard, but from the beginning the
victory
a
proaching
have
said Magruder, 'I don't
know how to spare you irom preaching and exhorting, but you must take charge of tho police and keep order. ••Yon had better not trust me, said Goodwin. 'Why?' 'If I am in command there'll be a fieht. I don't believe in letting rowdies run over you. If you put me in authority, and give me the law to back me, somebody '11 be hurt beforo morning. The rowdies hate mo and 1 am not fond of them.
I've
wanted such a chance at
these Jenkinsville and Salt l'ork fellows ever since I've been on the cir-
CU''l'wishyou
Morton soon had the brethren organized into a police. Every man was to carry a heavy
club
At
they
would clean them out,'
said the sturdy old elder, the martial fire shining from under his shaggy brows.
some were armed
with pistols to be used in an emergency. Part of the force was mounted, part marched afoot. Goodwin said that his father had fought King George, and be would not be ruled by a mob. By such fanuings of the embers of revolutionary patriotism lie mauaged to infuse into them some of his own courage.
midnight Morton Goodwin sat in the pulpit and sent out scouts. Platforms of poles, six feotbigh and covered with earth, stood on each side of the stand or pulpit. On these were bright fires which threw their light over the whole space within tbo circlo of tents. Outside the circle were a multitude of wagons covered with cotton cloth, in which slept people from a distance who had no other shelter. In this outer darkness Morton, as military dictator, had ordered other platforms erected, and on these fires were now kindling.
in his
fectly
Goodwin was the
who was indisposed to trust
this treacherous truce. He immediately posted his mounted scouts farther away than before on every road leading to the irround. with instructions to l*t him
instantly, if any body of men should bo seen approaching. From Morton's previous knowledge of the people, he was convinced that in the mob were some men more than suspected of belonging to Micajah Harp's caug of thieves. Others were allies of
mounted sentinels who had
been posted far down the road came riding in at full speed, with intelligence that the rowdies were coming in force from the direction of Jenkinsville. Goodwin had anticipated this, and he immediatclytawakened his whole reserve, concentrating the scattered squads and setting them in ambush on either side of the wagon track that led to the camp ground. With a dozen mounted men well armed with clubs, he took his own stand at a.narrow place where the foliage on either side was thickest, prepared to dispute the passage to the camp. The men in ambush had orders to fall upon the enemy's flanks as soon as the fight should begin in front. It was a simple piece of strategy learned of the Indians.
of the guard was assured by the
advantage of ambusb and surprise. Tin only question to be settled was that of capture, for Morton had ordered the arrest of everv man that the guard could bring in. 6ut so sturdy was the fight that only three were taken. One of the guard received a bad flesh wound from a pistol shot. Goodwin did not give up pursuing the retreating enemy until he saw them dash into the liver opposite Jenkinsville. He Chen rode back, and as it was getting light threw himself upon one Sde or the great bunk in the preachers' tent, and slept until he was awakened by the horn blown in the pulpit for the eight o'clock preaching.
When sheriff Burchard arrived on the ground that day he was evidently frightened at the earnestness of Morton's d*fianno. Burcbard was one oi those politicians who would have endeavored to pn^h op a compromise with a typhoon. He was in a strait between his fear of the animosity of the mob and his anxiety to please the Methodists. Goodwin,
taking
advantage of this latter feeling,
got himself appointed a deputy-sheriff, and, going befor
viu M^.ore a magistrate, he secured the issuing of writs for the arrest of those whom he knew to be leaders. Then he summoned his guard as a posse, and, having thus put law on bis side, he announced that if the ruffians came again the guard must follow him until they were entirely subdued.
Burchard took him aside, and warned him solemnly thai sach extreme meis-
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urrs would uoit bis life. Some of theso men belonged to Harp's band, and he would not be sate anywhere if he made enetniCH of the gang. 'Don't throw away your life,' entreated Burchard. 'That's what life is for,' said Morton. •If
man's life is too good to throw Away in fighting the devil, itisu't worth having' Goodwin said this in a way that made Burchard ashamed of his own cowardice. But Kike, who stood by ready to depart, could not help thinking that if Pattv were in place of Ann Eliza, Morton might think life good for something else than to be tbrowu away in a fight with rowdies.
As thorn was every sign of an ap
riot during the evening ser
vioe, and as no man could uvtua^e tho tempest so well
as
Brother Goodwin, he
was appointed to preaoh. A young theologian of tho present day would
drifted helpless on tbo waves of such a mob. W lu on? has a congregation that listens because* it oughi to listen, one oan afford to boprosy but an audience that will only listen when it is compelled to listen is tbo best discipline in the world for a orator. It will teach him methods of homiletio arrangement which learned writers on Sacrqd Rbotoric have never dreamed of.
The disorder had already begun when Morton Goodwin's tall figure appeared in the stand. Frontier-men are very susceptible to physical effects, and there was a clarion-like sound to Morton
voice
well calculated to impress them. Goodwin enjoyed battle every power of his mind and body was "f
haat in
at its "best in tie knew tetlie must sur-
the presence of a storm ter tiian to take a text
priseThe mob 1 nte curiosity. 'There is a man standing back in the crowd there,' he began, pointing his finirer in a certain direction where there was much disorder, and pausing until everybody was still, 'who reminds me of a funny story I once heard. At this point the turbulent sons of Belial, who loved nothing so much as a iunny story, concluded to postpone tbfir riot until they should have their laugh. Laugh
did, first at one funny story, and then at another—stories with no moral in particular, except the moral there is in a laurh. Brother Mellon, who sat behind Morton, and who had never more than half forgiven bim for not coming to a bad end as the result of disturbing a meoting, was greatly shocked at Morton's levity in the pulpit, but Magruder, the presiding elder, was delighted. He laughed at each story, and laughed loud enough for Goodwin to hear and appreciate the senior approval of his drollery. But somehow-the crowd did not know how,—at some time
discourse—the Salt Fork rowdies did not obbarvo when,—Morton manaired to cease his drollery without detection, and to tell stories that brought tears instead of laugh ten The mob was demoralized, and, bv keeping their cuii osity perpetually excited, Goodwin did not give them time to rally at all. When ever an interruption was attempted, the preacher would turn the ridicule of the audience upon the interlocutor, and so gain the sympathy of the rough crowu who
were
habituated to laugh on the
side of the winner iu all rude tournaments of body or mind. Knowing per
well that he would have to fight before the night was over Morton's mind was stimulated to its utmost. If onlv be could get the religious interest
agoing,
he might save same of tbe.se
men instead of punishing them. His soul yearned over tjie people. HIP oratory at last swept out triumphant over everything there was weeping and sobbing some fell in uttering cries of anguish others ran away in terror. Even Burchard sbiveired with emotion when
Morton described bow, step by step, a young man was led from bad to worse, and then recited his own experience. At last there was the utmost excitement. As soon as the hurricane of feeling had reached the point of confusion, the rioters broke the spell of Morton's speech and began their disturbance. Goodwin immediately invited the penitents into the enclosed pen-like place called the altar, and the whole space was filled with kneeling mourners, whoso cries and groans made the woods resound. But at the same moment the rioters increased their noisy demonstra tions, and Morton, finding Burchard inefficient to quell them, descended from the pulpit and took command of his camp-meeting police.
Perhaps the mob would not have secured headway enough to have necessitated the severest measures if it had not been for Mr. Mellen. As soon as ho detected the rising storm he felt impelled to try the effect of his stentorian voice in fuelling it. He did not ask permis sion of the presiding elder, as be was in duty bound to do, but as soon as there was a pause
in
the singing he began to
exhort. His style was violently aggressive, and only served to provoke the mob. He began with the true old Homeric epithets of early Methodism, exploding them
like
are
Setlyup
bomb-shells. 'You
bair hung
and
hell,'he
breeze-shaken over
cried.
'You don't say!' responded one of the rioters, to the infinite amusement of the rest.
A
For five minutes Mellen proceeded to drop this kind of religious aqua fortis upon the turbulent crowd, which grew more and more turbulent under his inflammatorv treatment. Finding himself likely to*be defeated, be turned toward Goodwin and demanded that the camp meeting police should enforce order. But .»Iorton was contemplating a muster stroke that should annihilate the disorder in one battle and he was not to be hurried into too precipitate an attack*
Brother Mellen resumed his exhortation, and. as small dos«s of nitric-*cid had not allayed the irritation, he thought it necessary to administer stronger ones. 'You'll go to bell,' he cried, 'and when you get there your ribs will be nothing but a gridiron to rvast your souls in!' •Hurrah for the gridiron!' cried the unappalled ruffians, and Brother Mellen
ave the fight, reproaching Morton lor not suppressing the mob. 'I thought you was a man,'be said. •They'll get enough of it before daylight,' said Goodwin, savagely. 'Do you get a club and iide by my side to-night, Brother Mellen I am sure you are a man.'
Mellen went for his horse and club, grumbling all the while at Morton's tardines*s. •Where's Burchard?' cried Morton.
But Burchard could not be found, and Morton felt iuternal maledictions at Burchard's cowardice.
Goodwin bad given-orders that scouts should report to him the first attempt at concentration on the part of the rowdies. He had not been deceived by their feint?, in different parts of the camp, but had drawn his men together. He knew that there was some directed bead to the mob, and that the only effectual way to boat it was to beat it in solid form.
At last a young man came running to where
Goodwin
stood, saying: 'They're
tearing down a tent-.' •The fight will be there,' said Morton, mounting deliberately. 'Catch all you can, boys. Don't shoot if you can help it. Keep close to getber. We have got to ride all night.'
Be had increased his guard b# mus
tering in every able-bodied man, except such as
were needed to conduct the
meetings. Most of these men wore Methodists, but they vere all irontiermen who knew that peace and eiviliasition have often to be won by breaking heads. By the time this guard started the camp was in extreme confusion women were runuing in every direction, children were crying and men were stoutly denouncing Goodwin for bis tardiness.
Dividing his mounted guard of tbirty men into two parts, he sent one half round the outside of the camp-ground in one direction, while he rode with the other to attack the mob on the other side. The foot-police were sent through the circle to attack thena in a third direction.
As Morton anticipated, his delay tended to throw tho mob off their guard. They nad demolished one tent and, in great exultation, had begun on another, when Morton's cavalry rode in upon them on tw» sidts.l dealing heavy and almost deadly blows with their ironwood and hickory clubs. Then the footmen charged them in front, and the mob were forced to scatter and mount their horses as best they could. As Morton had captured some of them, the rest rallied on horseback and attempted a rescue. For twoor three minutes the fight was a severe one. The roughs made several rushes upon Morton, and nothing but the savage blows that Mellen laid about him saved tke leader from failing into their hands. At last, however, altar firing reveral shots, and wounding one of the guard, they retreated, Goodwin vigorously persuading his men to continue the chargo. When the rowdies had been driven a short distance, Morton saw by the light of a platform torch, the same strangely dressed man who had taken the money from his hand that day near Brewer's Hole. This man, in his disguise of long beard and wolfskin cap, was trying to get past Mellen and into the camp by creeping through the bushes. 'Knock him over,' shouted Goodwin to Mellen. 'I know him—he's a thief.'
No sooner said than Mellen'sclub bad felled him, and but for the intervening brush-wood, which broke the iorce ol tho blow, it might have killed him. 'Carry him back and lock him up,' said Morton to his men but tho other side now made a strong rush and bore off the fallen highwayman.
Then they fled, and this time, letting the less guilty rowdies escape, Morton pursued tho well-known thieves and their allies into and through Jenkinsville, and on through tha country, until the hunted fellows abandoned their horses and fled to the woods on foot, For two days more Morton harried them, arresting one of them now and then, until he had captured eight or ten. He chased one of these into Brewer's Hole itself. The shoes had been torn from his feet by briers in his rough flight, and he left tracks of blood upon the floor. The orderly citizens of the county were so much heartened by this boldness aud severity on Morton'^ part that they combined against the roughs and took the work into their own hands, driving some of tho thieves away and terrifying the rest into a sullen submis sion. The camp meeting went on in great triumph.
Burchard had disappeared how, no body knew. Weeks afterward a stran ger passing through Jenkinsville report ed that he had seen such a map on a keel boat leaving Cincinnati for the lower Mississippi, and it soon came to be accepted that Burchard had found a home in New Orleans, that refuge of broken adventurers. Why ho had fled no ene could guess. [TO BE CONTINUED.]
THE CO UNTil Y110 WD Y.
This Fellow of the Period Fairly Pointed,
[Detroit Post.]
Tho city loafer and rowdj is not .an agreeablo creature, but the."rough" of a country town has some despicable traits combined with his utter obnoxious qualities that confer upon bim his own peculiar superiority as a nuisance and a plague, lie lacks oven the small sparks of manliness which are occasionally struck out of the city rough by collisions with his brother roughs, and by the necessity of fighting forsupremacy and for his claims to be a stronger and braver bully, shoulder hitter, aud dead beat than his comrades. But the country rowdy has no rivals. Ho may have a few imitators, but as a general rule he bears the palm alone, suffers no brother near the throne, is monarch of all he surveys, lie is not only the terror of the wbolo neighborhood, but be is not likely to be chtt:k?d in bis career by mutual destruc tion which quarrels and jealousies among city rowdies bring upon them and so decimate their ranks and keep down the brerd within some recognized limits. But the country rowdy has not even tho restraints of "a struggle for existence.' No one dares oppose him. The larger p*r«. of the community are wholly unused to dealing with such morbid outgrowths of civilization. They never go armed. They are, with few exceptions, unfamiliar with the idea of sudden and violent taking or life. Tbpy have no constabulary which is in the habit of dealing with the reckless, desperate specimens that the policemen,of cities encounter every day and are liable to be called upon at any moment to assail in self-defence or in order to secure their arrest. The country rowdy swaggers about without any lear of the law, and with a pleading self-satisfaction that everybody is atraid of him which grows more and more aggressive the more it is indulged. He defies and scares the whole community for miles around, as a tiger does a village of India. People fear him and shun him as they would an ugly dog. and seek only to placate bim and* keep him in good humor so that be will not bite and devour them, whatever be may chance to do to their neighbor.
ENGLISH WOMEN AND FASHIONS. (Jenny Jane's correspondence.]
It is rather curious to know why, with equal and even superior facilities for obtaining styles, the London ladies^ of every class manage to be far behind New York women in their acquisition and display. The fault dees not lie with the merchants, or, as they honestly and truly call themselves, "shop-keepers," for ibey get them, and would obtain them in larger quantity if tbey were required. ItTs simply because it is the habit of English women to wear their clothes out, irrespective of changes in fashion.
Dead dogs are really an odd kind of mercbaLdise, yet there is a firm in San Francisco which purchases at 50 cents each the dogs slaughtered at the city {found. The skins are removed and sold to the tanners, the bair is disposed of to the plasterers, and then the carcasses are thrown into a great boiler, and there kept until the bones are separated from the flesh, nd these are sold to the sugar refiners. The grease ^bat rises to the surface Is made into cod-liver oil—at least so it it stated.
Golden Words.
"Seated one day at the organ, waa weary and ill at ease, And my lingers wandered idly Over ttiu noisy key*— I know not what I was playing,'
Or what I WB- dreaming then, Hut1 struck one cVoid of music, 1.1k the sound of a grand '-amen. It ticoded thecrlmson twilight, Like the close of-an angel's psalm, And it lay on my feveie I spirit,
With a touch of Infinite ca.in. It quieted pa'n and sorrow, I.lke love o'er coining slilfe— And soemcd the harmonious echo Of our own discordant life. It jinked all neiplexed meanings. Into oue per/ect peac-, And trembled awoy Into silence, As If it were lot to cea*e. have sought, but I seek it vainly—* That one lost chord divine. That cane Irom the soul of the organ And entered into mine. It may bo that Death's bright angel, Wlllspeal! that chord again, It may be that only in Heaven, 1 shall hear that grand "amen."
Grief banished by wine will come again, And come with a deeper shade Leaving, perchance, on the soul a stain,
Which sorrow hath never made. Then fill not the tempting glass forme, If mournful, I will not be mad: Better be tad, because wo sinful, be,
Than sinful because we are sad.
Silence never betrayed any one. Question not the voraci'-y of a friend. Fight lifo's battle bravely, manfully. Tho beauty seen is partly in bim who sees.
He who lives to no purpase lives to a bad purpose. Woulds't thou die nobly, let thy vices die before thee.
Reprove thy friend privately, commend bini publicly. 8om» people are only useful as sad examples to the young.
The race is not always to the swift nor tbo battle to the strong. Cherish your best hopes as a faith, and abide by them in action.
Scandal, like a reptile crawling over a bright grass, leaves a trail and a stain. This world ould be a dreadfully silont place if people talked as little as they thought.
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it—anything but live tor it.
Ye shall know them by their fruits Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?—Bible
They are generally better satisfied whom fortune has never favored, than those whom she has forsaken.—Se neca
And why beboldest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?—Bible.
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them for this is the law and the prophets.—Bible.
As bees can breed no poison, though they suck the deadliest juices, so the noble mind, though forced to d^ain the cup of misery, can yield but generous thoughts and noble deeds.
The man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by bis words. Character is like bells which ring out sweet music, and which when touched accidentally even, resound with s.weet music.
It is very easy to pick' boles in other people's work, but it is far more profitable t» do better yourself. Is there a lool
in all the world that cannot criticise? Those who can themselves do good service are but as one to a thousand compared with thoee who cau see faults in the labors of others.
The eleventh commandment, according to a blunt old elder is, "Mind your own business." Will the lolks who seem to have got tired keeping the ten, and who seem to want something else to do, please to commit this eleventh to memory, and then practice it a while? Those who have tried it say that in keeping it there is great reward.
How many people pray that God will do what they kaow they ought to do themselves. They deliver a sing-song petition that the good Lord will take care of all forlorn people, but they won't send even the remains of the dessert to them themselves. The best thing you can do is to pray not by the side of your own well filled table that God won't let poor people starve to death, but when you have a basket full of good things on your arm which you are carrying to a needy family. Don't pray that the poor may have pototoes while your own bins are heaped full.
Self-examination is not simply hunting for disagreeable qualities of cbaracacter. How does a man examine bis business, take account of stock? He does not look up simply the bad debts, but examines all, and eays this is good, this is had, and this is doubtful. But when people come to self-examina-tion they take account only of the bad. Tbey shut their eyes to every thing hopeful. They look in and say solemnly, "It is awful dark." Look in again, and wail, "It is awful dark," and call this self-examination. No doubt every man will find it dark enough within, but every true Christian ought to, and can find some light spots, spots made light by the in-shining of Christ, and in theso he ought gratefully to rejoice.— Rev. E. Frank Howe.
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LACK & BLACK.
ATIORKEYS AT LAW, 318)4 Main street. TER RE HAUTE, IND.
JOHN T. WILEY,
INSURANCE AND
COLLECTION AGENT,
NOTARY VURLIC.
Hakes a (ipcdalljr of Collections. 623% Main Street. TBKKE HAVTX, IND N. O. BT7FK. S. M. BKKCUKR
BUFF
& BEECHER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
OFFICE—No. 320 Ohio Street, bet. Third and Fourth, north side.
R. J. P. WORRELL,
Office, LINTON MANSION, Southwest corner Cth and Ohio streets. Office hours from 9 a. m.te 1 m. and from 4 to lip. in. Practice now limited to diseases of the
EYE and EAR.
DR.
J. MILLS
would most respectfully announce to tue citizens of Terre Hunt* and vicinity, that he has opened, on the corner of 13th and ChestHut streets, a Medical Olllco, where lie will tieat all classes of Chronic and acute diseases, of both sexes, in the most scientific and successful manner, either with »r without electricity.
Office and residence on eorner of 13th and Chestnut streets, three streets east of Vanda11a depot. Visits made to the country, if required. (febl7-Iy)
OSEPH RICHARDSON, M.
gj
Office on Ohio Bet. 8r«I A 4th. TERRE HAUTE, IND.
RI O. LINCOLN,
DKIirifcT.
Office, 221 Main street, near Seventh. Extracting and artificial teeth specialties. All work warranted. (dJtw-tf)
DR.
L. H. BARTHOLOMEW.
Surgeon aud JHcchanicnl
DENTIST,
Dental ICoom, 157 Main Street, neartttli, TKKBJB UAUTE, 1N1.
Nitrous Oxide Gas administered lor pau ess Tooth Extraction.
W. BALLEW, DENTIST,
Office, 119 Main Street, over Sag* old confectionery stand. TERRE HAUTE, IND
Can be fonnd in office night anu day.
Business Cards. IAL THOMAS,
Optician and Watchmaker For the trade, Main street, near Hlxth.slgn of big mau with watch.
WP.
MYER,
a
Tinware and Jot» Rliop,
ill south Fourth st. opp, Market House. A full stock of Tinware. Special attention given to Job Work.
VV. RIPPETOE
9
Gene vl Dealer In
GROCERIES, ..^VISIONS AND I'RO DUCE, National Block, 165 Main street
KISSNER,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer In Pianos* Mcloileous, Organs, Musical Instruments, Ac.,
Palace of usle, 48 Oh lot*
SEWING
MACHINES
ItEPAIKKD ANW ADJUSTEW In the very best manner and warranted to work, by JOSEPH FOLK, No. 822 Malt street, north side, between 3rd aud 4ti streets, up stairs. Don't condemn your machine until Mr. FOLK lias had a look at it for the real trouble may be very light and tne cost of repairing a mere trltie. he besi needles and oil constantly on hand.
JunelO-tl
STOVE DEALERS. HEELER & SELLERS,
Main Street, between Eighth and Ninth, TEltllE HAUTE, IND., Keep on hand at their place of business a large and well selected stock of
STOVES, TIN AND HARDWARE, And ask the public to call and price their
Soodst,hereby.
before buying elsewhere aud be benetted
Produce and Commission OS. H. BRIGGS,
PRODUCE AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, and Dealer in
HIDES, PELTS, RAGS, BUTTER, EGGS, AC., Corner of Fourth and lierry street*,
TERRE HAUTE. IND,
RESTAURANTS. H. RO USER'S
GRAND
Restaurant and Dining Rooms, No. 610 MAIN STREET,
North ilde, TERRE HAUTE, IND. orEH DAY AND MICIIIT.
HOTELS.
ENDERSON HOUSE.
F. P. NICHOLS, Prop'r.
South Fourth 8t, Bet Walnut and Poplar, TERRE HAUTE, IND. First Class Boarding by the week, Day or Meal. Best wagon yard in the city.
HOGS.
HENRY
BROWN,
11OO SHirPEK, TERRE HAUTE, IND.
Buys hogs every day In the year, "cash up and no grumbling." Office on south Fourth street, one half square south of the market bouse, one door south of Htnderscn house./ All I ask Is to try me. Trade with me once a ndyoo will trade with me again.
nr A VSCMi RELIEVED. NomediJLIXiAr cine. Book free. G. J. WOOD, Madison, lnd. JelMt-eow
WHOOPING COUGH.
Whooping Cough bpeclno cures this disease in one week's tlm«. If used generally, It will save the lives of hundreds. Do net let your child die of whooping cough when one bottle of this Bpecifle will cure It. It moderates all the severer symptoms within the first tweuty-»our hours. i*or sale by BUNTi.N tt Ail^iSiitoNG. 1'eare ilauu:, ind.