Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 8, Number 10, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 August 1877 — Page 1

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

SECOND EDITION.

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Town-Talk.

DIKING BOOM GIRLS.

Day boarding" is an outgrowth of ur modern civilization, by which a cerin proportion of the business men of ery town and city, especially the jng men, have their sleeping rooms separate places from tbe establishents where they got their meals. Thus is that the transient custom of hotels id restaurants is greatly swelled by regular day boarders and as T. T. opones to show, tbe name of "gentlean" is not always applicable to each in is miscellaneous company. *n this city, among many others in the jrth, the colored' man is consigned to re fatiguing employment tb&u carryplates and setting out dishes, and at duty is given for the most part to ung women. The position, many uld think, is exceptionally easy and asanl. Yet any person of sense who ever "boarded" for any length of eat a public eating house will agree tnot more patience is required in the nager of a Centennial exhibition in a dining room girl.

You call this steak, do you? humph, 'bought it was leather!" Thus she ist beiir the insults of every snakeiled barbarian who would like to the accommodations of tbe bouse, is too cowardly to come before tho idlord like a man and make his comtnts to the properperson.

Yes that's the kind I want bring me io." This stale saroasin, older than rocks of Ararat, she must hear a .on times a day, from every boorish •ak who wants to criticise the cook, knows well that that muscular rthy does not hear him, and that his rda out only a woman, who must not anything If she would keep her bition.

Think you'll get around to me by itartlme to-morrow?" Thus queries cabbage-headed lout who soes the girl loaded down with dishes, flyback and forth, doing her best, and it well, too, to supply the hungry lands of a whole tableful oi men all mco. lore's ytur dish of hot water, better out the cockroaohes with It." This v*m a hog who oalls himself a man, ding his plate of soup to tbe girl, aa io had been the ono who cooked it. •t, hard as it la coustantly to endure •j cruel thrusts, they are among the of the trials of the dining room 8he la openly insulted, her dignlis a woman mocked, ber common its as a human being violated, ber rts toward respectability derided, purest maiden, of best Impulses and *8t heart, Is quite as likely to be »d earning her daily bread carrying riding in a carriage or sitting parlor or dressed in costly silks, every oowardly blackguard who «e8 must vent the concealed slime Is polluted heart upon the brave girl dares to win her living honestly as jmber of a civilised oommunlty. If have a pretty ftua, so much the •e certain la she to meet the insults oL -e well dressed fellows of the handmustaches and hell-soaked brains, i, It is hard to see a girl of evident •ratability and womanly aspirations ring with all her might in the great le against the world, possibly suptug a widowed mother or an Invalid or a drunken and profligate her, at low salary for hard work, od and insulted by stalwart villains ie gentlemanly hateftriness she dan rooont if sho would not hasard the

I will of her employer—a person by the way, is rarely made aware eh occurrences. -t| has more than seldom taken te\t these public places, and many b#could hardly keep his hands off

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broadclothed devil who spoke

Wilter aa if she bad been the comas* prostitute. T.T. would like on *, iuch occasion to brain the blackwith a chair—to mask his handfecewlth the heaviest soup plate 4 table and then kick him out into «ek alley. If there is a coward on hoe of this earth it is the double ted snob who carries pure white

roses and honeyed words to his !ady love in her elegant mansion, and then when he comas to the table, where tbe Almighty /or some inscrutable reason allows him to eat his dally food, tries to seduce the waiter girl.

Is the position of hotel waiter so pleasant that a common harlot would prefer it to the leisure of her den? It is claimed by these smart Alecks that all waiters are low women. T. T. does not believe it. Tbe assertion is an outrage and the selfish cur that would make his infamous proposals to a hard working girl who is in danger of losing her situation by any sign of displeasure, ought to be branded over each eye with a hot iron to stamp the name of "Coward." "mi

WHAT HE DIDIf'T DO.

The death of Samuel McDonald carries its own moral. T. T. has been hearing on every side, this week, words of warning to those who may be tempted toward brilliant profligacy or drunken uselessness. Consequently, T. T. will not a 3d to the moral teachings of the daily papers which, by the way, for once ventured to tell the truth in an obituary, having for a subject tbe death of a person who was not supposed to have any friends left to be shocked and make a row about it.

But as for half a dozen years people have been talking about what this man did, let T. T. tell you of some things Sam McDonald didn't do.f

He didn't get on a big bum and roar around the streets pnd lie in the station bouse all night and then whine to the Mayor, beseeching him not to let .his name get into tbe papers,«%

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When he had occasion to whack a fellow drunkard on tbe nose he didn't give a false name for the police slate.

He didn't marry some poor girl he dicl not love merely as a business speculation by which he could put his property under his wife's name and thereby swindle his creditors out of their just dues.

He didn't put a coating of pulverized obalk on bis face and go to church on Sunday merely for the purpose of inducing respectable people to think he was a uaint.

He didn't slip into a dance with prostitutes behind looked doors on Monday evenings and then ask the band of some genteel and geutle lady in a quadrille at the next fashionable ball.

He didn't sneak into a gambling den and afterward complain of losing his money by the "bard times" and tbe reveises of fortune.

He didn't flatter his Congressman and afterward curse him for not getting him an office.

He didn't make stump speeches to men he despised. He did not walk in the moonlight with fair maidens and talk about the poets and the flowers and literature and art, at tbe same time his money was supportlng in elegant leisure a "woman" in some out of the way dormitory

He didn't chew cloves. He didn't pretend to be one of tho bon ton and look down upon pompously or bluff off insultingly those poorer and humbler folks who could not afford to dissipate and wear fashionable clothes at the same time.

Sam McDonald was no genteel sham.

Husks and Nubbins.

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TIIK t&CUINE OF PARTY* GOVERNMENT. Prof. Gold win Smith contributes an article to Macmilleu's Magazine for the purpose of showing the "Decline of Party Government" and that constitutional governments can be carried on without parties. Parties, he says, as political instruments belong to "an age of unscientific politics, of combinations formed upon class Interests, of little independence of mind, feeble reasonings and strong passions." As political knowledge, Independent thought, and public morality advance, allegianoe to party grows more feeble until the cohesion is broken up and refuses to be restored. In order to maintain party feeling there must be issues involving important public interests upon whloh men way honestly differ, but as the tendency ia constantly to dispose of such issues until none remain, it finally becomes impossible to maintain a clear division of the voters into two parties and many factions spring up, dertituteof principle and struggling in a quicksand of selfishness and intrigue. So this writer theorises and we are inclined to the belief that his views have a fouudation in reason and experienoe.

One thing, we think, cannot be disputed, and that Is this: The intelligent, independent-thlnkln men, are not, as a rule, strong partisans, while the opposite class are. It ia useless to argue this point. It is a matter of common observation, and no one oan deny it. Man who read and think and observe leok with a degree of contempt on tbe pomp of political parades and the pettiness of politic*! orations. They eee through it and see that, for the most part, It to a disingenuous scheme to delude the populace, and they are naturally and necessarily disgusted. It Is true, then, as Prof. Smith asserts, that allegianoe to

party grows more feeble as knowledge and Independent thought sdvanoe. It ia true, also, that the successful maintainanoe of parties requires important, sharply defined and irreconcilable issues upon which to bsse them. As long as the agitation of the Slavery queation existed it required no effort to keep two great political partiea organized. Here was a question upon whloh men honestly and fiercely differed. It was a question involving bumsn rights—a queatioa that appealed with fearful power to the strongest sentiments of man's nature. .On such a theme the tricks of the political orator might well be laid aside. A few plain words, a doz9n sentences were sufficient to arouse tbe multitude to the wildest enthusiasm. As long as there were men in favor of African alavery, so long there was no trouble in massing society on one aide or the other. Bat issues like Chose muse sooner or later become exhausted, or at least must disappear from the field of politics for long periods of time. A question of such moment may arise once in a century hardly oftener. What is to hold parties togetherdurlng these long seasons of political monotony And more, what is necessity that they should be held gether? Certainly the politician will endeavor to manufacture some issue upon which public opinion may be divided and party feeling aroused, but it is a tame affair. The better class of citizens see through it, end care little for it. The politioisn reduces polities to a science, but it is, for the people, both a useless and expensive science. It costs heavily and brings no benefit. It is difficult to conceive snything more useless and unprofitable than the party method of conducting politi Every sensible man ought to be thoroughly disgUBted with it, and most of that class of men arc. Look at the vast outlay of labor and expense which a Presidential campaign costs. Millions of dollars would not cover it. Yet there is nothing more simple than an election. Each voter places a slip of paper containing the uames of his ohoice into a box, and the candidate who receives tbe most votes is elected. Why all this hurrah, this beating of drums and flying of banners, this rant and roar and fury Each side decries tbe other exaggerates its faults belittles its virtues. Each side exalts itself covers up its sores promises an immediate millenium. Each Bide distorts tbe truth makes the false appear true and the true false. There must be bands, banners and buncombe. One side must outdo tbe other. The side which carries the most torches, hurrahs the loudest and works the hardest is the side that will win. Such, at least, is the theory. But it is hard to carry out. One party only incites the other. The torches in every prooession are numbered by the opposition in order that they may be outdone in the next demonstration. One party will not be idle while the other works, nor will one party often be outworked by the other. This mutual rivalry makes campaign work compulsory. But what is the good There are only so many votes this furore does not increase them.

Under tbe present system the shrewd, tricky, but shallow politician too often comes in ahead of the man of ability and virtue, because the former is better skilled in this science of campaigning than the latter. There is too much business made of the matter of selecting our rulers. Honest, sensible, intelligent citizens ought to vote, and refuse to do anything more than that. If candidates want to go about the oountry making speeches, let such ss choose go snd hear them quietly and decently—as they go to bear a lecture or a concert. This thing of making the chief science of government consist in what ia tbe mere accident of government, is intolerable nonsense, and ought to be discontinued. The disintegration and fell of party government will be a blessing and cot a bane for the oountry, and the signs of tbe times unmistakably point to its ultimate downfell.

Thb lecture of Hon. A. B. Meacham on last Thursday evening at Centenary church was attended by only about two dosen people, the occasion of the slim attendance being the threatening weather. Mr. Meacham gave an interesting conversational talk, in which in thrilling language he related the story of the beginnings ol the Modoo war And the msMiBfiTO of Gen. Oan by and the commissioner*. Tbe few who attended were intensely interested.

Tm famous minstrel* of Kelly fc Leon are in the city and will give one of their indescribable entertainments this evening at the Opera House. The hard times have weeded out those burnt oork artists who cslkd themselves minstrels, but persisted In putting before the pub* lie the old dried np Jokas sad undent humor. Kelly Leon remain In the field, ever popular because they may always be depended upon for something new, laughable, pathetic and pi waring They have nothing stereotyped. Tbe entertainment will be given this evening at tbe Opera House, remember.

ol. 8.—No. 10. TERKE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 25, 1877. Price Five Cents

WATERING PLACE.

A Letter from 8,8. Martyn about Wau•4 kesAa and ita Surrcmndinfft. r.* ...

Waukesha, Wis., Aug. 20th, 1877.

To the Editor of The MaU Pleasant breezes are not atrangers to Terre Haute but pleasant breezes, invigorating the system and putting new life into it, are gifta that must be sought among tbe hills of Wsukeshsto be fully appreciated. Here come tbe sick, seeking the hesling waters of Bethesds and other springs. Here nature has spread a most inviting table to tempt the taste of tbe pleasure seeker—cool retreats, snug homes nestling among the hillsides, beautiful drives, and a few miles away to the north, lovely lakes, which tourists say compare lavorably with

any to be found elsewhere. The place itaelf (villagi gether) numbera about 5,000 population, with a prospective rapid growth in tbe future. Intelligence, plenty and beauty are all members of the same family, here. Besides tbe usual population, there are also present, it is estimated, two thousand visitors—hotels, boarding houses snd private families all crowded with them. Indeed, applications for rooms are refused continually lor want of accommodations.

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TLe springs are, of course, the chief or first attraction. These are a dozen in number. Of the cures wrought by them, especially the Bethesda, many remarkable facts are related. People come here almost ghosts, uot having walked for years, unable to sleep, ana without appetite, and a few days' use of the water will work almost as wondrous a cure as that of the impotent man of old. The water itself is tasteless and it is amusing to see all sorts ot people, sick and well alike,—the young fashionable with his jaunty cane, and tbe sweet-faced belle with jeweled hand, seriously drinking half a dozen glasses of cold water as if it had all the flavor of Jupiter's nectar or of Buntin's "old fashioned lemonade." What

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positions, and delicate sips, and" gentle sighs 1 Why one glass at a time 13 not sufficient, is a mystery but fashion dictates differently, and fashion rules the watering places.

There are six hotels here two of them —"The Fountain House" and "Mansion House," large and elegant affairs. There are also twenty-five boarding bouses, each and all making pleasant homes for visitors, with board ranging from $7 00 to f10 00 a week.

Here is tbe oelebrated Industrial or Keform School of tbe State, of which I may give a future account. Suffice it to say here that some place it ahead of anything of the kind in the Union. Tbe educational interests of tbe village are well cared for, making it especially in this respect a desirable place for permanent residence. Ride out, also, in any direction, and you will find well-kept and thrifty farms, neat and even beautiful houses and door-yards, sione schoolhouses guarding with an air of quiet dignity tbe wayside, and evidences generally of intelligence and enterprise. The religious character of the place is especially marked churches abounding and well attended, with attractive houses of worship, some ot which, as tbe Episcopal and Baptist, construct ed of stone, are fine specimens of architecture.

One feature especially notable here is, that not a pig nor a cow is allowed to wiggle its tail or lower its horns in the village. Gates are left open and even off their hinges in some esses, and yet no "lowing herd winding slowly o'er tbe lee" ever pauses to turn in, or stops to ruminate by the way.

But Summer tourists and mineral springs are not all the attractions of the place. The soil is underlaid with limequarries tthleb furnish some of the best kind of matorial for building, so that many of tbe buildings have really a solid and fine appearance. This is also a great dairy region, especially noted for its cheeses, which even find a large market in England. They turn thirtyseven hundred pounds of milk, equal to eighteen hundred quarts, Into a large vat lined with tin, runoff the whey, and then press, in cheese-melds, the remainder. The best of milk Is taken— cream and all. Five hundred pounds to cheese is the average allowance. It would not be a bad industry for Terre Haute. There Is also quite a large woolen factory here which employs about two hundred hands and has a capital of about 950,000. Notwithstanding tbe hard times, it runs the year round on fall time, and has donea pros* perous business. AS regards the

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times," one would judge they had seen but vet? little of it in this region. The Strike aid not even reech here, although a large fire which raged in the village Sunday afternoon, and which destroyed the beautiful depot of hardly* year old, is supposed by some to have been the Work of dissatisfied railroad employees —a supposition purely gratuitous so Jar as any evidence goes.

But my paper ia full, and I must defer

or two other interesting mat

ters to future letter. Wearied by the talks on theology with Captain Potter, I must he off to drink with him the mineral waters, according to the Gazette. At least it all wouldbeso, if the Captain hadnt left for a pleasure trip to Duluth by tbe Lakes, without an opportunity on my part to do hatdly anything more than shake hands with him. Theology, however, will keep, and aa for tbe mineral springs, I am off now for the Silurian. a S. ML

TKB council st ita last session ordered pla*s for tbe grading of south Thirteenth street. The Job will be a big one If It UMtoally odmd, siitixnnBdif on that street from Poplar to Hulman. The trou|le«hottt It is that tit* south end of the contemplated grade Is two feet lower than the level of Oollege rtteet,eo that that pert must be drained into the old Lost Creek bed.

People and Things.

It is goldon duty to be glad. Larrikin is Australian for hoodlum. Philadelphia spends 92,500 Idaily in postage.

Joyce denies that be intends writing a history of the whisky ring. One steamer recently brought forty thousand watermelons to Boston.

New York city now has five Unea of telephones in suooeasful operation. In Mississippi and Weat Tennessee hogs are being fattened on peaches.

Tbe Ohio Democrats are very anxious to have their opponenta "pull down their Weat."

Tbe town of West Newbury, Msasacbusetts, with a population, of 2,300, has only four paupers.

Lord Dufferin has been driving thirty oxen in hand, hitched to a Red River cart, up in Hamilton.

Tbe total expense of the Tichborne trial foots up f300,374.83, of which the lawyers got 118,372.25.' V'

The Pittsburg Telegraph estimates that the gun, dealers of that city loat 918,000 in gooda stolen by the mob.

There is, a project to erect, in various quarters of Paris, plaoes of shelter for the workmen who are out of employment.

Burlington people remember that the President's father was a very "set" man. Amiably obstinate perbapa.—[Cin. Commercial.

Says Josh Billiiigp: *'1 sot me ctown in thought profound. This maxim wise I drew: It's easier fur you to luj a gal than make a gal luv you."

Not less than sixteen brass bands competed in a tournament at Rocky Point, and tbe very clama got up, turned over in their beds, and howled with agony.

Hawkeye: Nothing Is so reassuring to the country and the oommercial world as for suoceeslve state conventions to assemble, and alternately

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with alarm" and "point with pride." Now's the time when a'fiy settles on a man's nose, and the man makes a grab at tbe fly, and then opens his band, one finger at a time, while the happy fly ia contentedly crawling over the butter.

The lateat from Brigham Young: "His bull neck and rotund figure give him an exceedingly animal appearance, while his furtive, cunning eye and restive, uneasy manner impress the stranger unfavorably."

A San Francisco huckster bought a mule by auction for |140. After trying for three daya to put ita harness on from a second story window, tbe owner resold it for 914 on long time, and under tbe title of

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What do you

do with your stray cows," a prominent citizen was asked the other day.

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them in tbe pound" was the answer* As a result, streets are clean and milk is sweet. To be sure they haven't a population of twenty-five thousand it might be different if they had!

When a small boy with a prejudice against yellow dogs observes an old oyster can In a condition of inactivity, he at onoe begins debating the question whether it was created to peint amoral, or adorn a tail. Tbe dog gets the first news of the decision.

There sreeome people who, when they see one of oar gilded youth standing on a corner, amiting his delicious boot with bis lithe oane, say he ia_good for nothing else. They ire ready to retract however, when they^observe the born Iwrolrn of his action as he unflinchingly shoots the Ivory billiard balls along the emerald table, or leans Upon his cue te Hercules did his clQb* People are too hasty In jumping at conolnaiena.

From Talmage: Before to has had trouble, a man's prayers are poetip. He begins away up among the sun, moon and atars, and givee tbe Lord a igieat deal of astronomical Information. He must be highly gratified. Then he goes down gradually, and beautifully, and lands forever, and ever, amen. Trouble will drive sUthst eat of him. When I began to preach I used to write down all my sermons. I sometimes preached sermons en trouble, but tbey were oe^* ly all poetic and in semi-blank vene.

At theflospltalof St. John Lateran, Rome, a patient was admitted thp other day suffering from hydrophobia. It was a hopeless case, and the pettent was needy dying, when a person brought up apiece of cord worn by St. Domenieo and directed that it should besteeped In water and tbe water admhustered to the 8ufferer, as it was an infellible remedy incases of hydrophobia! Thiswssaccordingly done, but the oofd had loai its efficacy, tor the patlent died very shortly after, proving, as the believer* say, that it most have been some other disease, not fcydrophoMat for theeosd gccruldnotfiilL

Feminitems.

My dress, you'll aver, is economy own, Designed with most exquisite taste. From sone unto hem, and from tucker to sone, i:

You cant find a vestige of toaitt. Thirteen wivee henpeck the Khedive. Miss Emma Snyder, of DuQuoin, is evangelizing people in southern Illinois.

Miss Rhode Broughton, tho author of

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ass Rose is She," etc., is shortly to be married. Fancy feathers for fell are among the ooming events that are casting their shsdows before.

Kate Field saya Gen. Grant doesn't^ know one tune from another, but all his children are musical.

At Saratoga every lady in the morning first turns herself in the glsss, and then turns a glass into herself.

In Armenia mothers-in-law do not!. speak to their sons' wives for the first./ j. four yearsof their marriage.

It is no longer the fashion to send'

"around a alios of wedding cske." ,They

send the recipe how to meke it. An Intelligent paper in Switzerland/, says that "Miss Molly Msguire,of Pennsylvanla, has been hung for misbehaving."

The laat case of oow-hiding comee from Colorado, where a woman is said tor have hidden her cow under the bed to 7 save it from taxation.

A Milwaukee editor says George Sand may have died from strong coffee, butf there has been no mortality from that oause at his boarding house.

The Mobile Tribune says there are llving in that cUy, within a few squaiee of each other, five women wbote united agea make the sum of 497 years.

A recent wedding near Boston gave the bride her third husband and the groom his sixth wife, and yet women will hold conventions and try to catch up.

General Nathaniel Head said, "before Judge Key oomes out, here is the moot important member of the Cabinet.—^ Mrs. Hayes wife of the President.—[The farewell reception.

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the High Kicker."*

Mark Twain ia a hard and systematic worker. Hesajs in a private letter: "I write so msny hours a day regularly, and without fail, and then throw the copy into the fire. I may not accumulate rtianuBcript, but I have the experience."

Boston Transcript:—One reaeon why Scburz ia so violently attacked is that hla enemies know him to be untiring in his opposition to those who, in official pOaition, would bring haek, if they oould, the old era of office holding connection with politic*

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The young fellow out in Texaa doesn't" tell you thst his sweetheart is "as sweety 4? as sugar," but says of her: "Oh! sbe'lldo, to put in coffee." A poetic way of put-* ting it worthy of a much older State than Texas.

A girl left her clothing on the bank ot... a canal and bid herself, snd when heii^ parents were crying snd ssying if they only hsd her back they would obey her^.:,m slighteet wish, she appeared and said she wanted to marry Jake. ,'fc vv'J-yifc-'

articles do not receive a very

warm recsptlon of late," wrote a lady to 4 tbe conductor of a monthly magazine, "Our felr correspondent is mistaken," replied tbe editor "they meet with the warmest reception possible. We burn' them all."

Olive Logan is making moral reflect tlons in Paris. The Spirit of tbe Times reaps the benefit of the following:

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Sarah Bernhardt driving In the Boils yesterday. It is one of the marvels of ~. Parisian science how such a thin woman' can be so pretty."#

The Philadelphia Times is authority for the report that tbe wife of Rev. W. -'J H. H. Murray, of Boaton, is studying medicine at a New York collegs to obtain a diploma. Mrs. Murray, like her husband, is very fond of field sports, and the rod and gun very skillfhlly. "What are those purple posies down by the brook?" aaked Gns.

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repliee Clara, "those glorious of empurpled effervesosnce, thst

bloom in bosky delle and fringe the wlmpling atreamlete, they are campan- ^. nla rotundlflora." Gus plays billiards* for a living and Clara goes to a girls' college.—Rural New Yorker.

Says the Plymouth Memorial concern*^ Ing thestatue on the Pilgrim Monument: "4Faith' from a northwesterly direction,. little to the rear and at an angle In which fee thumb of the uplifted hand is esenln a line with the end of the noes, appears to be gratifying ber fingers after tbe manner known to saucy youngsters, aa If she would Intimate that Pilgrim Faith is at last so firmly established she,

which, however, she declined to hear, Savfnx that his name was no concern of hem. &e calmly replied that ha thought It was, tor bia name was JobnManaen^ and be was the postmaster general. 'M $'W

may bid defiance not only to tbe mother^ oountry, but to tbe world." Atell, elderly, refined looking gentleman recently went Into a small poet-v^, ..j office in a rural region of Englhnd. He asked some questions relative toethe registering of a letter, and was vaqt^jL* ehsrply, rudely mid unnecessarily snub« bed by a young woman In attendance! He asked her if ebetbotfght that was A proper wsy to answer an inquiry in a public office. She said shs thought she bad been quite civil enough for him. He asked her, with an ominously Increasing ^, mildness of manner, If she weuld him with ber name. She emphatically rsfned to do so. He then ssld be thought .be would tell ber hisname,