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TERRB HAUTE, AUGUST 18.1877.

LOAFINQ AROUND

They are Bitting around upon barrels and chairs, Discussing their own and tbelr neighbors' affairs. And the look of content that is seen on each face See ma to say, I have found my appropriate .4U»1 |vf,

In bar rooms and groceries, calmly they sit. And serenely chew borrowed tobacco and spit, While the stories they tell and the jokes that they crack Show that their hearts have grown hard and undoubtedly black—

While silting around. .f$

The "t liter around" Is a man of no means, And his face wouldn't pass fbr a quart of

Yet he somehow or other contrives to exist, And is frequently seen with a drink In hi* fist— .... While sitting around. The loungers, they toil not nor yet do they spin. Unless It be yarns while enjoying their'gln They are people of leisure, yei oiien us true, They allude to the work they're Intending to do—

Whlleslttlng eroond.

They've a habit of talking of other men's

As they whittle up sticks with their hornhandled knives They're a scaly old set, and wherever you go You will find hem in groups, or strung out in a row— ltting around, %m

Saved by a Flash of

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My name Is Hunt. Yes, sir Anthony Hunt. I am a settler on this Western prairie. "Wilds? Yes, sir it's little else than wilds now, but you should have teen it when I and my wife first moved up here. There was not a house within sight for miles. Even now we have not many neighbors: but those we have are downright good ones. To appreciate your neighbors as you ought, sir, you must live in these lonely places, so far removed from the haunts of man.

What I am about to tell of happened ten years ago. I was going to the distant town, or settlement, to sell some fifty head of cattle—fine creatures, sir,as ever you saw. The iourney was a more rare event with me than it is now and my wife had always plenty of commissions to charge me with in the shape of dry goods and groceries and such like things.

Our youngest child was a sweet little gentle thing, who had been named after her Aunt Dorothy. We called the child Dolly. This time my corrim'euions included one for her—a doll. She had never had a real doll that is, a bought doll only the rag bundles her mother made for Ler. For some days before my departure the child could talk of nothing else—or we, either, for the matter of that—for she was a great pet, the darling of us all. It was to be a big, big doll, with golden hair and blue eyes. I shall never forget the child's words the morning I

I turned to nod yes to her as she stood In her clean whitey-brown pinafore against tho gate, her nut brown hair falling in curls about her neck, and the light breeze stirring them. °A brave doll,' I answered, 'for my little one—almost as big as Dolly.'

Nobody would believe, I daresay, how full my thoughts were of that promised doll as I rode along, or what a nice one I meant to buy. It was not of ten I spent money in what my good thrifty wife would have called waste but Dolly was Dolly, and I meant to do it now.

Tho cattle sold, I went about my purchases, and soon had no end of parcels to be packed in the saddle bags. Tea, sugar, rice, can les—but I need not weary you, sir, with telling of them, together with the calico for shirts and nightgowns, and the delaine for the children's new frocks. Last of all, I went about the doll—and found a beauty. It was not as big as Dolly, or half as big but it had flaxen curls and sky blue eyes: and by dint of pulling a wire you coula open or shut the eyes at will.

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Do it up carefully,' I said to the storekeeper. vMv little daughter would cry sadly if any harm comes to it.'

The day was pretty well ended before all my work was done and, just for a moment or two, I hesitated whether I should not stay in the town and start for home iu the morning. It would have boea the more prudent course. But I thought of poor Dolly's anxiety to get her treasure, and of my own ha—1—"" UQi UVWUIV) nuu v* in watching the rapturstn her delighted eyos. So with ray parcels packed fn the best way they coula be, I mounted my horse and started. It was as good and steady a horse as you ever rode, sir but night began to set in before I was well a mile from the town it seemed as if It were going to be an ugly night, too. Again the thought struck me—should I turn back and wait till morning? I bad the price of the cattle, you see, sir, in my breast pocket a ad robborles, aye, and murders also, were not quite unknown things on the prairie. Hut I had my brace of sure pistols with me, and decided to press onward.

The night came on as dork as pitch, and part of the way my road would be Ditch dark besides. But on that score I had no fear I knew the road well, every inch of It, though I could not ride so fart as I should have done in tho light. I was about six miles firoai home, I suppQM and I knew the time must be close upon midnight, when the storm which had been brewing broke. The thunder roared, the rain fell in torrents the best I ooald do was to press onward In it.

All at once, as I rode on a cry startled meta faint wailing sound tike the cry of a child. Reining up, I sat still and listened. Had I been mistaken No, there It was again. But in what direction I could not tell. I couldn't see a thl

ride on aa fMt as I $§14 attd getonttf the mystery Into we quarton. here was about in all the route.

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starting, as she ran after me

to the gate, or the pretty picture she made. There are some children sweeter and prettier than others sir, as you can't but have noticed, and Dolly was one. 'A very great big doll, please, daddy,' she called out after me 'and please bring it very soon.'

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darkei* bit of a road ountlngr my horse, I

was sbout to urge hlal on, when the cry came again. It did sound like a child's the plaintive wailing of a child nearly exhausted. 4? 'God guide me!' I said, undeoided what to ae. As I sat another moment listening I once more heard the cry fainter and more faint, I threw myself off my horse with an exclamation. 'Be it a ghost or be it a robber, Anthony Hunt is not the one to abandon a child to die without trying to save it.'

But how was I to save?—how find it? The more I searched about, the less could my hands light on any thing, save the sloppy earth. Tho voice had quite ceased now, so I had no guide from that. While I stood trying to peer into the darkness, all my ears alert, a flood of sheet lightning illuminated the plain. At a little distance just beyond a kind of gentle ridge or hill, I caught a glimpse of something white. It was dark again in a moment, but I made my way with unerring Instinct. Sure enough, there lay a poor little child. Whether boy or girl I could not tell. It seemed to be three parts insensible now, as I took it up, dripping wittt wet from the sloppy earth. •My poor little thing!' I said, as I hushed it to me. 'We'll go and find mammy. You are safe now.'

And, in answer, the child just put out its feeble hand, moaned once, and nestled close to me.

With the child hushed to my breast I rode on. Its perfeot silence soon showed me that it slept. And, sir, I thanked God that He had let me save it, and I thought how grateful some poor mother would be! But I was full of wonder for all that, wondering what extraordinary fate had taken any young child to that solitary spot.

Getting in sight of home, I saw all the windows alight. Deborah had done it for me, I thought, to guide me home in safety through the darkness. But presently I knew that something mutt be the matter for the very few neighbors we bad were gathered there. My heart stood still with fear. I thought of some calamity to one or other of the children. I bad saved alike one from perishing, but what might not have happened to my own. liardly daring to lift the latch, while my poor tired horse stood still and mute outside, I went slowly in, the child in my arms covered over with the flap of my long coat. My wife was weeping bitterly. 'What's amiss?' I asked in a faintypice. And it seemed that a whole chorus of voices answered me: •Dolly's lost!'

me to save her, and that the first ash of the summer lightning had shoqe just at the right moment to show me where she lay. It was her white sunbonnet that had caught my eye. My darling it was, and none other, that I had picked up on that drenched road.

Dolly, anxious for her doll, had wandered out unseen to meet me in the afternoon. For some hours she was not missed. It chanced that my two elder girls had gone to our nearest neighbor's, and my wife, missing the child just afterward, took it for granted she was with them. The little one had come on and on, until night and the storm overtook her, when she fell down frightened and utterly exhausted. I thanked Heaven aloud before them all, sir, as I said that none but God and His holy angels had guided me to her. It's not much of a story to listen to, sir. I am aware of that. But I tffcen think of it in and asked on now,

the long nights, lying awake at myself now could I bear to live had 1 run away from the poor little cry in the road, hardly louder than a squirrel's chirp, and left my child to die.

Yes, sir, you are right that is Dolly out yonder with her mother, picking fruit the little trim, light figure in pink —with just the same sort of white sunbonnet on her head that she wore that night ten years ago. She is a girl that was just worth saving, sir, though I say it, and God knows that as long as my life lasts I shall be thankful that I came on home that night instead of staying in the town. :m ,u:f

Sawdust Seminaries.

Are drew Men Brutal and Cruel to Their Apprentices f—The Daily Boutine—JPi'ecautions—*' The Meehan~ ic"—Punishment.

Iq [New York Sun.] 'Cruelty to children apprenticed in the circus business?' Yes, I've heard that talk many a time from people who wanted to get up a reputation for philanthropy on a mighty slim capital of truth and good feeling. But there's no truth in it. Why, air, you've been about circuses a good deal, and known a good many circus men, as I know, and you can tell better than that. I've been in the profession a good many years, and I'll take my oath I never yet knew of an instance of wanton cruelty practioed upon an apprentice by a real circus man.'

He was right in saying he had been in 'the profession' a good many years. In fact, nls connection with it ante-dates the memory of the oldest inhabitant. It was Frank Whit taker who was speaking. Nobody knows how old beta, though to see blm flourishing his long ring-master's whip in Barnum*s sawdust arena, or blowing the froth from his beer in bis own cosy little hostelrie on Fourth avenue, just below the Hippodrome, one might easily take him to be a ruddy, hearty, well preserved man of forty-five. There are rumors, however, that he was ring-master with a circus in Spain before Ctlumbusdisoovered America that he even knew Jim Nixon in the days of his youth. Slaking his thirst with along draught, he went on: 'Let them look to where children are really abused —apprenticed to trades that stunt their growth and deform them—employed in occupations that give them but a pittance to starve and despairing and vicious upon. Let reform those abases and leave as •lone. When they do so it will be better for us, better tar many a poor boy and better for society at large. A drcos man and his family live as well ss any ftunilv in the land, and his apprentice lives'as he does himself. As for punishment, it is never given unless it & really deserved, and even then then Is not one case in a thousand where the error is not on mercy's side. As for hard work and accidents, the work is but tttti* more than organised play for the boy*j every possible precaution is taken to avoid accidents, and serious hurts eel*

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It was, as I hare said, as dark as pitch. Getting off my horse. I felt about hot conldnnd nothing. And while I seeking, the cry came again—the faint moan or a child in pain. Then I began to wonder. I am not superstitious, bat I asked myself how it was possible thai a child could be out on the prairie at such an hour and in audi a night. No real child it ooald not be. Upon that came another thought, one less welcome: Was it a trap to kinder me on my way and

There might be midnight

ensnare me? robbers who almoat oertain ride home that night and of the money I should have about me,

I don't think, air, that I am more timid than otbwr people, of as much so, perhaps as aorae, but I confess tba ids* made me uneasy. My best plan was to

dom, I might s*y never, occur. Certainly there it not one boy injured in learning the drcos business to a hundred crippled or marked for life in em* ptoymenta wben tbey bavo to work tbont machLnarr* ^Tbereis one olaust that must be in

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Dolly lost! Just for a moment my heart turned sick. Then some instinct, like a ray of light and hope, seized upon me. Pulling the coat off the face of the child I held, I lifted the little sleeping thing to the light, and saw Dolly! 'Yes, Bir. The child I had raved was no other than my own—my little Dolly. And I knew that God's good angels had

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evsrv indenture apprenticing it boy to whioh can do no harm. Aft®' good, lie circus biisinom, at»d witho^l wblcfc beating dittter, a rest until ^F*kr«*fterIt will not hold. Col. J|0ie*Pago, of noon performance, then dwss anddo Pennsylvania, invented it^lndlis poinft wb4the can ft# the ring aa he is called lain the phrate 'to learn thVarte and upegfe After supper, the sciences of the. equestrian or ol reus pro- As soon as fesslon.' If that is in, tho apprentice can Btralnbtao bed, and is tired enough to be held, but not without It. There is no sleep sonndly. After each turn of exerspecified age for beginning to learn. cli3%£fip||bbed down and puts on dry Some begin at four or five years old, clot'.i

others not until they is best to start to ride in the two years old. horse act. As there in ao fixed time for starting in, so there is Ho certain time of 1 ooming out. At first a boy is taught to

rt young. My wire began ring *|»en jrbew^s oplyf 1. Sbtrwtos carried fnfetwo-'

walk on his bauds, to bend, to stand on his head, and 'the spilt.' The latter is very little taught nowadays to boys who are intended to bo riders ot general performers. It consists in getting their hip nbored

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aro twenty, but it 'In winter, wbeu be is not on the road My wire began the boy goes to some public school, bis mental training.»for the. time, taking precedence df njs physical [education, though tho latter is not altogether neglected.- Now, what hardship is there in all that for a boy, and what chance is there for his learning evil and laziness, and forming, bad associations? 'Riding, still-vaulting, running, vaulting and tumbling, coverall the branches

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straight out on each- side, and is very rope walking and such dangerous feats, difficult much more so than many of

tho other things, all of which, except ed a great de«l in public estimation, in this, a smart boy ought to learn id two this matter of training children, from or three weeks so as to do them pass- being confounded with those acrobats ably. Still vaulting comes much later, .and gymnasts. Tbey are often cruel to A boy has to be twelve or fourteen years children that I know. They come into old before ho can hope to do two or three the circus in hope of making a big sensomersaults in that way at a time. To sation, growing famous and getting fortrain him in that we

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a strong belt tunes. When they make a failure, as

made to faston about his waist, with a they pretty much always do. then they ring fixed on each side, and to these rings are fastened inch ropes, which are firmly held by two men. The ropes hold the boy high enough so tb*t he can not land o:i his over his

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strike out" some new plan for getting money. To that end they train children, anH are often brutal in their treatment of them for you understand they

a on ms head or strike it as he goes have no love for the children and no r, so it is Impossible for him to break pride in their profession all they are neck or otherwise injure himself, after is money, and they want to get tho After he becomes proficient and has con little ones to such proficiency as to be fidence in himself, the r. pes are slacken- paying property as speedily as possible, ed, and finally taken off altogether, but But with circus people it is very differnever, until it is perfectly safe, ii the vig- enfc. They generally have no apprenilance of the tneu holding the ropfes for tices outside of their own families or one ins »ut relaxed when the boy is relatives but when they do take others bractieiue

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'As for' riding, boys are put at that am in the profession 1 have never anytime, according to their smartness known a who had himself own and fitness for it, and you may say that brought upin it to bo cruel and brutal in that line their education never ends, to an apprentice. If they ever whip it for there is no rider, however good,who, is for some grave offence, and only as if he loves his profession and has a pride in himself, is not always trying and practicing for some new thing. Nowadays, to prevent accident* in training children, the 'mechanic' is generally ^nployed. That is a machine fixed on the center pole and turning lightly, so as to swing along wooden arm around the ring. A rope passes over a pulley at the extremity of that arm. One end of it is held by the trainer, the other is fastened by a snap catch to a ring at the back of the pupil's belt. Of course a boy can not fall from a horse when swung up there in that way. If he loses his balance, the trainer holds him up, and the thing can be arranged so that all the practice of turning, somersaulting, etc.. can be had without the rope getting in the way. Some old riders, however, object to it on the ground that it is liable to beget a confidence while it is on that is never afterward enjoyed when it is taken off, and also tbat it does not impress the pupil with the necessity of learning to depend on bis feet for the preservance of his balance. S. Q. Stokes, the inventor of the'mechanic,' used it successfully in training Ella Zoyara, one of the finest riders in the world but the Zoyara, some think, was an exception. I know numbers of fine riders who persist in preferring the oid device of a rope run through a ring at the pommel of the pad, one end fastened to the boy's waist belt in iront, and the other to the trainer's band. The tendency of a person standing on a horse in motion about a ring is to lean over on the outside, further and further, until he pitches off, and to lean back until his balance is gone. If the trainer sees boy getting off on the Outside, he tautenf his rope same if he sees him getting back too far. If he tumbles, instead of going headlong to the ground, the rope, sharply pulled, brings him sprawling safely on the pad. There is no danger of falling inside. 'Of course there must be falls, and occasionally bruises and sprains, but the boys are taught to fall so as not to hurt themselves. When tbey are good enough riders to bo trusted alone without either the 'mechanic'i or the rope, tbey learn how to manage themselves In case of a tumble for, you know the oldest and best rider may tumble off sometimes, through a horse breaking his gait, or a slip of his foot, or a slight error of calculation in performing a feat. But a fall amounts to nothing when you are trained to be always ready for it, to think as you go where you are going to and what you had better do, and to act as quickly as you tbink. One way a boy is likely to fali, he will be taught to roll out of a horse's way another way. he will be shown how, ir be is falling right In front of the horse, to coil up in a ball, tight as he can, ao as to run the least risk of being stepped on and auffer least hurt If he is touched by the horse's hoof. With all these precautions It is very rare that a boy is seriously hurt and I'm sure I don't know of any trade a boy can learn where he is not likely to meet with some accident, unless he studies for the ministry. Then his troubles are liaule to come later in life. 'The physical education is not sll the drcus apprentice gets. Care is taken to give him a common school education— reading, writing, arithmetic, ge9graphy, and so forth. As for bad morals, the boy has no chance of learning wickedness he is too busy with study and earnest practice. If there is ever any likelihood of bad talk among the older members of a company, without it may be a little swearing, which too many of them have

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parent would punish his own boy—for the boy's good. Take it all in all, boys in a circus are treated more considerately and kindly than nine out of every ten outside the profession.'

Charles W. Fish, who is to-day recog nized as one of the finest riders in the world, if not indeed the finest, said: 'I was apprenticed at the age of seven The first year I was under James Mc Farland, and then, from thesprlagof 1867 to the 23d of November, 1864, with C. J. Rogers, of Spalding fc Rogers, I went through iust such a course as Mr Whittaker has described, training, study, and everything else. In all that time I was only whipped three times— once for going fishing when I had been positively ordered not to, once for firing off tire crackers on a steamboat, and the third time for going off to dinner witn a friend, not letting Rogers know I was going, and staying away so long that he got anxious ana worried about me. I deserved my whipping each time, and I did not get as much as I deserved. I never saw an instance, or heard of one, of a boy's being kicked, struck witn a fist, pounded, or otherwise treated with cruelty by any one in the profession. Loud talk and ridiculous threats constitute the main punishment apprentices get. Old John Robinson got the name of being cruel by his way of talking to the boys but the truth was, he was kind. He would set an apprentice to do something, tell him exactly bow to do it, show him, and promise him a cane, 'or a watch, or a suit of clothes as soon as he

to do it well—a promise which he id not fail to keep if the boy deserved it. But suppose the boy was mulish or stupid, and failed over and over again through not minding what he was told, Robinson's patience would give out and he would swear and roar: 'Will somebody lend me a pistol to shoot this boy or a knife or a cross-cut saw to cut him in two or a club to beat his head iu? But be didn't want anything of the sort, anv more than he wanted a knife and fork to eat the boy with. Even when be bad to punish a boy for serious misbehavior he never went too far. Yet, to listen to him, you would think he was going to slay the boy. He trained Jim Robinson aud young Hernandez, both first-class riders. Ordinarily, it is slow work for a boy to learn to ride well, however willing he may be and however uood his master. In fact, a rider who desires to excel in his profession is never done praotioing, never considers that he has learned all his business. So there is no fixed point when the education of the apprentice can be deemed complete. But it should be, for good practical service, in the time commonly set for au apprcn ticeship, which is seven years. •All the feats performed on horseback are first tried and thoroughly practised on the ground aud lew persons outside the profession have any idea of the difficulty attending even tbe simplest of them, or of the time required for preliminary practice. I worked once for ten 3'ears, practicing on the ground, to get one feat, and when I did succeed in it only did it-'ten days, for the reason tbat it was not appreciated by the audience, and I oould not see any benefit in risking my neck at every performance in doing something that dian't take. Bdt it was the most difficult and dangerous thing I ever attempted. It was a twisting somersault. Standing with my back toward tbe horse's head I would turn a back somersault, and twisting around while in the air, would laud with my face toward the horse's head. When I

swearing, wo.cu mu v. was in the air I could not tell bow I was a habit of—not tbat they really meau

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anything bad, but that it is just a habit my feet, or going to face, with thena and a sort of safety valve Tbat was the difficulty in learning it, when they are exdtod—but if any bad but it came to me after awhile. Ana talk is started than a bey shouldn't hear, that suggests a curious thing—the way you will see that tbe apprentices are a feat comes to one, boy or man. In Sent out of the way mighty quick. Go practidng on the ground for something among the boys or stand near them, as you want to do on tbe pad^you must get I have thousands of times, when they it exactly right—not pretty near. Pretdon't know anybody overhears them, ty near* may breakyour neck.^ Say it and listen to what they say. You will is a somersault. You want to land at a find tbat their thoughts and conversa- oertain spot, not a coupleof inches from tion are much more innocent than yoa it, but predsely there. You may work will be' likely to find among boys of at it months without success. Then, sll their age who ha v.) been running aboat of a sudden, without your knowing how the streets or attending the common or why, it comes to you Just as natural schools in a big dty. Why, just look at as if yoa had known it all the routine of a circus boy's life and tell ao easy that you can not te me what chance he has to be bad. He soul why yoa hadn't done it from tbe is called up at six, or balf-past, in the atart. After it comes that way yoa have morning, practices with bis master an nomore trouble in doing it. hour or an nour and a half, and is then C. J. Rogem mentioned as Mr. well wasoed and rubbed all over. About Fish former master trained four boys eighths takes breakfast,and yoa may andasirl for the circu*. bet be will have appetite enough to eat a turned out well. Sa™ P.

crowbar almost, and will get plenty of old-timer who has

good healthful Axd to satisfy it. Circus educated all his lam femHyin what folks feed well. After braakfast time is Col. Page happily charactertoediu the allowed for him to go about easy and arts and sciences. James Melville amuse himself say an hoar. Then he trained his own children and one other pats on his practicing clothes, works an boy-to whom bsgave the^mily name, boor or an hour andahal^la rubbed bowever-and tbat boy ianow widely down, changes to his ordinary clothes, knowti aa SamMeMUe, rldsr, tambler and is sent back to bis master's boose to and clown. Tbe old man is still a resileant his book lesson, whatever it may dent of New York.and quite be. When the master eomes in to din ably ^"d, being worth at least flOO.OW. tier he hears the Doy redte his lesson, John Robinson wsss famous trainer, sad sets him another for the next day. and turned out a number of ornaments Perbape the little follow may go to sleep to tbe profession. 8. Q» Stokes, the ininstead of studying. Then be wiUprob- •entmr of 'the mechanic, was at one sblyhave his ear palled lightly, or his period aCunous and highly successful

blows wi and no b»w u» ctm m.wu mm, or may be hurt his brain, but just a prentices for the toils and triumphs ef «m«rt «ipe along his plump

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Philadelphia in retirement. Two of his daughters, educated by him, are excellent riders. Ella Soyara, his most fa-

The laws of New York and ^Massa«husetts forbid the appearance in drcus performances in those Statei of children under tbe age of sixteen yean? consequently there is little disposition now among circus men in the east t« take Apprentices. Training boys and jrirls for the profosslon Is mainly confined to persons already in it, as the occupation of their lives, bringlngup their offspring to succeed tbem. xhen there are private establishments In different parts of the country where the children of uotirprofe3*ionalsare instructed into these poculiar 'arts arid sciences.' Of these establishments the following is believed to be a correct list:

Jas. E. Cooke's, Newton, L. Eaton Stone's, Franklin Station, X. J. B. W. Carroll's, Westchester, N. Y. Martino Lowande's, Frankfort, Philadelphia.

John O'Brien's, Frankfort, Philadelphia. John Robinson's, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Sebastian Guagliani's, Middlebush, N. J. All these names it will be noticed, belong to famous circus men. Tbe last mentioned is best kuown to the public simply as 'Sebastian.' It was from him that a child was recently taken in San Francisco, on the application of its father here, through tho Society for tho Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Those who know well Sebastian's disposition and tbo tacts of this particular case, affirm that he is a very kind man, tbat tbe reclaiming of tbe little child was simply a ipeculative proceeding, and tbat, since.the custody of tbe little one was awarded to its father, efforts have been unavailingly made to induce its former master to again take it into bis keeping.

Tile \V6ight of testimony in tho matter of circus folks' treatment of their apprentices seems to sustain their claim tbat they aro kind and net

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feared, of tbe acrobats and gyi^asts. Indeed, all well regulated circus men, from the 'star' rider down to the canvas wrestler, give especial thanks tbat they are nqt acrobats and gymnasts.

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•fe? WEEKLY PAPERS. Indianapolis Journal, price 52.00, and The Mall W 0 Indianapolis Sentinel, price $2.00, and N. Y. Tribune, price 32.00, ano The Mall 3 2bledo Blade, price 82.00. and The Mail a N. Y. 8un, and The Mall 4 Prairie F\xrmer priee 82.00and The Mali 8 66 Western Rural, price 82.50 aim The Mall 8 rhieago Advance, price, 88.00, and The

Mali

Chicago Interior, price 82.60, and The Mai

Mali

The Mail-

Sttakney,

a

P**odaway,

the equestrian arena. Now 1m lives in

4

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Chicago Inter'Oeean, price 81.60, ana Th* Mall 8

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Aj^leton't Journal, price 84.00, and The

Sural New Yorker, price $3.6o, and The Mai) 4 Methodist, price 82.50, and The Mall a 6( Harper'* Weekly, price 84.00, and Tho

Harper's Batar, price 84.00, and The Mail

a

Frank Letliet lUxutraled Newspaper, price $4.00, and The Mail- 6 00 Leslies Chimney Corner, price $4.00,and

Th« Mail 6 &• Boys' and Girls' Weekly, price 12.50, and

MONTHLIES.

Arthur'* Home Magazine price 12.50 a uu The Mail Peterson's Magaxhne, price $2,00, and ne

Mail

American Agriculturist, price 81.60 and The Mall Demorest's Monthly, price 83,00, and

The Mall 2 Uodey's Lady's Book, price 83.00, and The Mall. 26 IMtle Corporal, price 81.60 anu The Mail 816 aeribner's Monthly, price $4-00, and The liai. 6 it AUonlie Monthly, priee $4.00, and The

Mai i.... —...» Harper's Magazine, price $4.00, and The

VardewU^onO&~pT\oe Vjft&iuA The Mail

8 6*

Young Folks BuraC, and The Mail 'J 7t The Nursery, priee 8L60, and Tbe MaU 8 10 BL Nicholas, prioe f&00, and The Mail 4 40

All the premiums offered by tbe above pub llcations sre included in this clubbing arrangement.

Address F. ft. irmrALL, rubttsber Saturday Evening Mail riCRRKHAUTB I

Blest be the art that can immortalise, The art that baffles Time's tyrannic elaims to quench it."

j^DORN YOUR HOME&

You Can do so Cheap,

At 802 MAIN ST.

CHROMOS* ENGRAVINGS

Copying From Old Miniatures, In India Ink and Water Colors, in the finest style, slso

MOULDINGS akd FRAMES AT THE

VERY LOWEST RATES.

Call ss« sc*. ««s4 sgvslt wasted.

Professional Cards.

THOXAS H. NBLSON. ISVAC N. PLBBCK W

NELSON

& PIERCE,

Attorneys at Law, TERRE HAUTK, I NIX.

Office, north side Main st. near Thl:d.

ASA. M. BLACK. KDWIN W. BLACK

LACK & BLACK. .. FA*

ATI ORIS EYS AT LAW, 813^ Main stret t. ,\7 ,'*T TEliRE HAUTE, IND.

N. G. BUFF.

BUFF

S. M. BKKCHK&

& BEECHER,

ATTOHNEVjS AT LA

Office—No.

320 Ohio Street, t-^t. Ihlrd and Fourth, north side.

("WORKS & CO.,

ISSCRAKCE AND

COLLECTION AGENTS,!

NOTARIES PUBLIC.

Make a Specialty of Collections. 523% Main Street.

7, Terke Hautk, I*D

Companies Repreoeuted (FIRS INSURANCE.)

lus. Co. North \ri) erica, Phi I a. 88,606,000 Niagara Fire lu* Co. oi N. Y. 1,500,000 Prim ire Insurance Co. 1,075,900 Scottish Commercial Glasgow, 6,1*00,000 (Ul'K INSURANCE.) Nor liwester^ Mutual, M1 waukec 319,000,000

Loaned in Indiana, over 2,600,000. Losses paid in Ind iana, over 500,0C0. Losses paid in Tt-rre Haute uurlug past six years, over 41,000.

1)

R. J. P. WORRELL,

Office, LINTON MANSION, Southwest corner Gth and Ohio streets. Office hours from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. and from 4to«p. m. Practice now limited to diseases ol the

EYE and EAK.

OSEPH RICHARDSON, M.

11-4

r-i:-

POK THE YEAK

1877.

A MODEL WEEKLY PA FOR THE HOME

$-*!-$,• si

»T.

Office on Ohio St., Bet. ttrd

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iih,

TEKRJE HAUTE. IND.

1 O. LINCOLN,

a#*

Office, 221 Main street, near Seveuth. Extracting and artificial teeth specialties. All work warranted. id&w-tf)

R. J. MILLS

would most respectfully announce to Uie clthsens of Terre Haute and vicinity, that he has opened, on the corner of 13th and Chestnut streets, a Medical Office, where he will treat all classes of Chronic and acute diseases, of both sexes, in the most scientific aud successful wanner, either with or without electricity.

Office aud residence on corner of 13th and Chestnut streets, three streets east of Vanda11a depot. Visits made to the country, If required. (I'ebl7-Iy)

I \R. L. H. BARTHOLOMEW, I Surgeon antl Mechanical

tit DENTIST,

Menial Itoom,

157 -Mailt

fttreei.

near Utli,

[/r* ~~.hu- CJCKHK 1IALTK, IMJ. r,

JS itrous oxide Oa* administered tor pax* ess Tooth Extraction.

W. BALLEW,

s"*,

•la DENTIST,

Office, 119 main Street, over Sage*» old confectionery stand. ^,sTERKK HAUTE, 1NU "Can l»e* iound In office ni«ht anu day,

Business Cards.

C1AL

THOMAS,

Optician and Watch'maker For the trade, Main street, near Sixth, sign of big man with watch.

WP.

MYER,

Tinware and Job SbO|j,

114 south Fourth st. opp, Market House.

a

full stock of Tinware. Special attention given to Jub Work. I

W. RIPPETOE

iVim Oene Hi Dealer in GROCERIES, ..^VISIONS AND

PRO*

'-«ws?5yr tw 1)UCE, It National Block, 165 Main street

KIS8NER,

Jm Wholesale and Retail Dealer In Piano*, Jlelodeona, Organs, Musical Instruments, Ac.,

Palace ol Music, 48 Ohio

STOVE DEALERS. HEELER & SELLERS,

In Street, between Eighth and Ninth, TERRE 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 prico their

goodsthereby.

before buying elsewhere and be benetted

Produce and Commission OS. H. BRIGGS,

PRODUCE AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, and Dealer in

HIDES, PELTS, RAGS, BUTTER, EGGS, AO., Corner of Fourth and berry streets,

TEKIIE HAU TE, IND,

RESTAURANTS. H. ROUSER'S

Ce ORAND Restaurant »nd Dining Rooms,

No. 610 MAIN STREET,

North 4lde, TERRE HAUTE, IND. OPEN DAY AND HIGHT.

HOTELS.

ENDERSON HOUSE.

P. P. NICHOLS, Prop'r.

Sooth Fourth St, Bet Walnnt and Poplar, TERRE HAUTE, IND. First Class Boarding by the week, Day or Meal. Best wagon yard in the city.

HOGS.

ENBY BROWN,

BOS SUIPPKI,

TERRE HAUTE,IND.

Boys hogsevery dayln the

sn

I

I

1:

year,-ca«hup

no grumbling." Office on south 1" ourttt ttr iet, one half square south of the market he n#, one door south of Htndencn house. All I ask is to try me. Trade with me onet ndyou will trade with me again.

nn pjrUH BELIEVED. NomedjU iliiuU cine. Book free. G. J. WOODi Madison, lnd.

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