Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 8, Number 17, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 October 1877 — Page 1

Vol. 8.—No.

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

SECOND EDITION.!

Town- Talk.

I os or in O iz tho crow that iz in him, and the other iz the spurs that are on him to bak it up with."

A neat little story is going the rounds of the papers to the effect that Josh Billings, during the last summer, hearing a young man at Lonft Branch, bragging loudly of his exploits, handed hi in a scrap of paper with the philosophical remark quoted above written upon it. T. T. has been seriously meditating whether it is not his duty to have a few hundred cards struck off, containing this bit of wisdom. He certainly knows a number »f people who art* greatly in need of a gentle hint of this kind. There is too much crowing ou the part of thoso who have no spurs to "bak it jp with," or If they have them, they never use them. They brag of what they aro going to do, or will do under certain circumstances, are always putting a chip on their shoulders and daring somebody to knock it off, taking good care to give tho daro to a safe party. They brag of what thay have done. They scramblo up out of harm's way and sit astride a beam while the fight goes 011, and when bruin Is dead comodown and strut about proclaiming the fact,, which isn't a fact, that "I and Betsy killed the bear." These poople are altogether too numerous who never seem to have heard that while "Brag is a good dog, Holdfast is better," and so only keep Brag, and let him bark ceaselessly.

T. T. knows a young man who, from the "crow that is in him," and continually comes out of him, one would naturally infer that the entire responsibility of the household to which he belongs rested upon his shoulders, and that all that had over been accomplished by any member of the household haS boen by his wise counsels or herculean efforts. The fact is that he is the "dead weight," the deadest kind of a weight, upon the entire kinship. His Mother or sister puts him to bed drunk three nights in the woek his father keeps him with him in order to have an eye to tiim, when he could easily fill his place with one who would be of ten times the assistance and at a tenth of what it costs to keep him. Yet his father never made a good strike in business which he didn't advise, or a mistake that he didn't warn against, if his "crow" is to be believed. In fact the "old man" is a mere figure head In the business ivery way, while the rooster provides the brains and energy. His sisters only reflect his glory, and his mother owes ali the honor she possesses to the fact that she is his mother. This young mat£needs a hint about the spurs with which to "bak up his crow."

Then there Is that old bloat or rather young bloat, for he is hardly in what ought to be the prime of life yet, who swaggers about the streets and business houses, leading his dog Brag." He drinks, be is a Mormon in bis marriage relations, be is lazy, and has always been unfortunate in business." His wife, that is the one who is publicly recognised as bis wife supports him and takes her pay in abuse, and though disappointment, abuse and hard work Is rapidly hurrying to that place where she will cease to be an obstacle to another marriage. Yet this contemptible fellow assumes the sir of superior wisdom, talks of what he can do, has done, and will do, and in a word gives free rent to his crow as if he had spurs to "back it np with."

In politics there are plenty of people to crow, to brag as to what they would do, advise as to what ought toe done, find fault with what is to be done, and yet will not go to a caucus, nor give a cent toward campaign expenses, and most needs bsve a carriage sent for them on election day. If they would bold in their political crow till their political spurs are grown they would make a much better appearance as political roosters. W 3

In all benevolent, reform and religious movements these same fellows put in an appearance. The trustees and committees of these institutions know, to their sorrow, plenty of the loude»t crowing codes in lh«ir reepeetw* coops who nev]enough

er developed a spur to back up their crow. When some long-winded fellow, male or female, gets to going In tbe prayer meeting, telling everybody else what duty is, and criticising other people, and proclaiming superior wisdom and piety, it might be well for the minister to say: Amen But brother (or sister) so-and-so, a wise man, who, though inspired, yet knows whereof he affirms, says, 'I luv a rooster for two things. One is the crow that is in btm, and tbe other is the spurs that are on him to bak it up with," and that's the kind of Christian I love." T.T. never knew a Christian to crow more than a Christian ought to be able to crow, but he has known some whose crow was ont of all proportion to their spurs. On the other band be has known a great many good Christians who didn't crow much, but they had mighty long spurs and knew how to use them. That is the kind which T. T. prefers.

T. T. wants to whisper ss privately as possible in tbe ears of young men and boys, a word of advice. Never mind about crowing as to whst you can do. People will And out your ability and your past conquests, and as to what you are going to do, they will know it as soon as it is done without any forewarning crow. But if you must crow, be very careful in tbe first place to see if your spurs are long enough and sharp enough to "bak" it up, aud very careful in tbe tbe second place to see that they are so used that they do ''bak it up."

Husks and Nubbins.

No. 275,

AN 0LD-I'A8HX0NED VIRTUE. There is one important lesson to be learned from the recent "bard times" which ought by no means to be missod. It is that efforts to make sudden fortunes by speculation are very likely to result in disaster and ruin, while a patient contentment with tbe profits of legitimate business Is the sure road to prosperity. Let anyone look around him and see who are ruined men to-day—bankrupts in utter insolvency. In nine cases out ot ten he wiii find that they are speculators, men who invested a few years ago in suburban woods and cornfields that had "millions" in them, who contracted colossal debts on tbe prospective rise in the value of their property and whose fortunee were estimated by the hundreds of thousands. They went on swimmingly until the panio struck them when they collapsed like an empty balloon. From supposed rich men they suddenly became bankrupts. Tbe fact is they never were rich. Their wealth was purely fictitious, a showy but fraudulent pretence. They were houses built upon the sand and when the winds blew and the rains descended and beat upon them they crumbled away. On the other band, who are the men that have.successfully stemmed the current of the past four years and not run afoul of the bankrupt court? Whose financial standing is yet Arm and sure, whose oredit is untarnished, whose integrity unimpeached It Is easy to answer. They are the men who, through all the crazy excitement of speculation, kepttheeven tenor of their ways, pursued their legitimate business whatever it was, paying as they went, contracting no unreasonable debts and satisfied with such incomes as they were able to thus realise. Their receipts may have seemed petty and contemptible in the eyes of pretentious speculators but they had the merit at least of being substantial—a merit which steaded them well in the long run. Today they have good homes and incomes sufficient to support their families comfortably while many a speculator's golden prospects have turnod to Dead Sea apples.

Tbe obvious lesson is that every man ought to have some legitimate calling and pursue it faithfully and steadily. He ought to be a useful member of the community, giving something In return for what he gets. If everyone would do this he would beoome skillful in his particular work and we should have good work of all kinds, instead of the miserable botches and bungles now so common. The old-fSshioned virtue of steadiness must come back again, as do the old fashions in dress and crockery. It has an astonishing amount of power and comfort in it. It is the steady pulling that counts, not on tbe road only bat everywhere. The farmer knows by experience thai If he wants to fktten his ox or hog he must do it by regularity In feeding. It will not do to over-Deed him one day and starve hiin the next. He must have his meals at tbe same boors each day and just so much at a meal. It is the same way with land. It is not to be fbrtilixed In a season bat requires the tonic eflects of successive crops and the steady continuance of good tillage and dressing. 11M merchant's yearly income is not mainly realised from tbe receipts of "big days" bat from the constant and steady flow regular customers.

The trouble with too many persons Is that they allow themselves to become restive and dissatisfied with their business.

They are not willing to let well alone: they want to And some

easier and quicker way to fortune. In tbe words of one speaking of the disposition of youug men to change their locations: "It is not so much that they cannot make a living and do good work where they are, that puts them on the scent for change—as it Is a fretting at steady, diligent, straightforward doing of the best things to be done, where they now are. They want to go, though they do not admit it to themselves, where they can be unsteady, if they like, and yet get on." Of how many are these words true! And how true is it too that if a man will make tbe most of the opportunities around him he will do, to say the least, reasonably well.

This steadiness is not only oonduoive to good, honest, thorough work, but it is a genuine panacea for panics. I am satisfied that panics are usually tbe outgrowth of senseless or crazy speculation. If every man in the community were attending strictly to his own business, whether of filling teeth, selling goods over the counter, healing tbe sick, tilling tbe soil pleading causes in the courts or whatever else, going steadily and straightforward on his way, pray wbat would make a panic? There simply oculd not be such a thing. Affairs would run on in a smooth and even current, like tbe rivers to the sea. There are no panics in nature. The world is not burned^up with heat for awhile and then frozen with cold. The seasons alternate, but with regularity, so that we know what to depend on. The weather experts tell us that there is very nearly an equal amount of heat and of rain-fall each season. The human economy would run on like nature's, if men would but imitate her regularity. When each man is buying only wbat he really needs and paying for what he gets—not living stingily, but healthfully within the margin of his income—why should there be a panic? Wbat is there to cause the wheels of business to clog and stop, the industry of the country to be turned topsv turvy, and universal prosperity to be exchanged for general bankruptcy and ruin? Can any man explain it? Yes, on the theory of wild, insane, baseless speculation of contraction of debts in excess of ability to pay of attempts to become rich by sudden jumps, without producing any substantial equivalent. But on any other theory panics are, and must always continue to be insoluble mysteries.

KNIGHTS OF HONOR. This new beneficiary order is deserving of some mention in these columns. In some respects it surpasses all others of that class, and its aims and objects should be thoroughly understood. It is now over four years old—the first Lodge being established in 1S73. This was "Golden, No 1," at Louisville, Kentucky. There are now 750 lodges in the United States and 45 in this Stats, with a membership in the United States of about 30,000, and in the state of 1,000. Tbe order has paid oui on deaths already 1300,000.

The Lodge In this city, "Good Will No. 520," was organized in March last, and has now eighty members. It is growing fast, and by Spring it is confidently predicted will have a membership of two hundred.

The amount of insurance— £2,000—is paid on the death of evory member. Five dollars a week is paid to tbe sick, and tbe Lodge obligates itself to visit the sick, and furnish nurses.

Tbe members pledge themselves to patronize and assist, each other, and help those get employment who are out of work.

Tbe cheapness of this kind of insurance is one feature that recommends it. Only one assessment is made on every 12 or 15 deaths, while the cheapest of others have an assessment on every fonr deaths. The benefit fund is secured by ample bond.

The Lodge meets every Saturday evening, in Beach's Block on tbe corner of Main and Sixth streets. The offloers and trustees are W. F. Walmsley, J. B. Lyne, J. B. Shirk, J. D. Wilson, Isaac N. Ash, W. J. Grief, J. C. Kelly, H. J. Treat, A. P. Lee, Sylvester Owen, Joel Surber, C. M. Smith, Geo. W. Nay lor, C. P. Lee. Such an order, under the management of a Board composed of such substantial and well known citizens is certainly deserving or tbe attention of all having families dependent upon them, and we are glad to learn of its succe«,ln this city.

,CHURCH NOTES. fife Fin* Presbyterian Church, Alex.

Ster-

rett, pastor—Publio worship morning and evening. Subject in the morning, ••Original Sin."

Third Street M. E. Chore*, J. W. Harris, pastor—Public worship Sunday morning at 10:30 and Sunday evening at 7:15.

Christian Chapel, G. P. Peale, pastor— Services at 11 a. m. and 7.15 p. m. Morning subject: Our Tears," evening subject: Looking through a glass darkly."

St. Stephen's.—Sunday School 9,\ a. m. Litany Sermon aud Holy Communion. 11 a. m, Evening Prayer and Sermon, 7 p. m. On Wednesdays, Fridays, and Holy bays, services at 10s. m.

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13, 1877. «i Price Five Cents

People and Things.

The safest way to rid yourself of your wife's female friends is to make love to them.

Philadelphia dentist's sigu: ''You never miss the toothache till the root comes out." t±

Jay Gould, it is said, was once a country editor. His downward course has been rapid.

The Oil City Call ventures forth the statement that an express train is faster than a day laborer, hut It can't stop as sudden." y* "You are as pretty as a picture" is no longer tbe correct oompliment to pay a lady. Simply say, "You put we in miud ofacbromo." £3

Talmage says he has baptized men by immersion who were in such need of wa ter on their persons that he was tempte to leave them in the tank.

A Philadelphia dancing master is about introducing a new dance expressly for fat people. All the performers have to do is to sit on tbe floor and kick.

A man may be too fiery and quick tempered to make and keep friends, or he may be too easy and good natured to get along in the world. A happy, mean disposition sucoeeds best.

A Western lawyer who was defending a man on trial for wife murder, sought for some euphonious phrase with which to describe his client's crime, and finally said, He winnowed her into Paradise with a fence rail." m* if

Recently twelve of the multitude of destitute men in the Black Hills offered to draw a ioaded wagon from Dead wood to Bismarck on condition of being fed on tbe way, and their proposition was accepted by a teamster.

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Brethren," said the realistic parson, when you put your contribution in tbe box you may drop it gently from beneath your hand, so that the collector can't tell whether it's a dollar or a nickel, but you can't cheat the Lord."

A certain way to make yourself either beloved or despised (which is it?) is to lend, and never ask to bo paid make presents, give treats, boar and forbear, do everybody a good turn, bold your peace, and suffer yourself to be cheated.

In tbe Mount Auburn cemetery, Boston, is a lot containing five stones, one at each corner and one in the center. The latter is inscribed "Our Husband," and the others respectively bear My 1 Wife," My II Wife," My III Wife," and My IV Wife."

The Rev. Philip Broots tells usrtbe suggestive speech of a backwoodsman who hoard Bishop Mead preach without manuscript in a frontier church. He is the first of them fine fellers," said the homely critic, that I have ever seen who could shoot without a rest."

Spurgeon, in preaching on "confession," lately, said Having searched the Bible through, I can only find one man mentioned who ever confessed. That was Judas -Iscariot and you will remember, my brethren, that he immediately went out and bung himself."

A delinquent arrested for drunkenn&£f was asked wbat be bad done with his money. Invested it in lots," was the reply. What lots," was tbe next question. Lots of whisky," be replied,with a serious face. There was a laugh, and tbe justice told him to go and come no more.

An exchange says that bats introduce bedbugs in dwellings. We never were in a dwelling where bats did anything of tbe sort. All the bedbugs we have met have seemed perfectly well acquainted and familiar with us without waiting for a bat or anybody else to introduce them.

The Yonkers Gazette: He who most loudly oondemns a newspaper for publishing personals about himself or family, will sneak into a news office, when he thinks no one is looking, buy half a dozen copies of the paper, mark the items, and send them to out of town Mends.

Texas Jack says that sheriffs are much more promiscuous in the State of New York than out west, and this is not to be doubted. Jack languisbdth behind prison bars in Syracuse for not paying his bills, and the Peerless" Morlachi weepethin vain for his release.—Rochester Times. j. ,,

The most interesting part of a man's life occurs when he watches a woman get over a fence. First she looks to see if anybody is watching her. Then she gstbers her skirts abont her, and the nan wonders 11 she will hop over. 8te then takes another look and crawls ander the fence.

There is, in the city of St. Loals, a mournful sight. A wealthy fether, a lovely mother, two beautiful daughters, and one grown son are all gibbering Idiots, while the youngest boy of tbe fkxmly lives to mourn tbe day when he challenged tbe family circle to repeat rapidly after him this diabolical sentence: "Shoes and socks shock 8usan in an inexplicable manner, and inexorably ate ceasetb sheathing her shoes."

Feminitems.

Another historical point is settled. As Robinson Crusoe,Lydis Thompson wears six buttoned kids.

Mrs. Hen appears among tbe members of tbe Minnesota Methodist convention. A lay delegate probably.

If yoo wish to make a pretty woman happy, speak to her, not of her beauty, but of the ugliness of other .women.

It bss been averred that a lady with a diamond ring will scratch her nose, in a given period, four times as often ss any other woman. '4:

A boarding house mistress, like the rest of us, has her weak and strong points, the weak point being her coffee and her strong point the butter.

Mrs. Hsynes, of Allen county, Ky., recently gave birth to four children, two boys and two girls, which weighed twenty four pounds in tbe aggregate, and were all at last accounts as well as could be expected. tf

There never was a truer thicg said than this sentence in Clarence Cook's Scribner paper on dress: The taste of men, in the matter of women's dress, is often better worth consulting than women will ever allow it to be." ^4$%™

If there is anything in life that will make a man tbink that bis newly made bride is lower than the angels, it is to get up in the night for a drink of water, pick up the wrong glass, and have her store teeth shake hands with him.

The Elmira Gazette says that a man in Bingbampton has secured everlasting happiness. He bought his wife a house with seventeen closets in it, and sixty yards of clothes line and about three dozen clothes pins, and now be says the angels sit around on the side fences envying that woman's perfect happiness.

Mary L. Booth, editor of Harpers' Bazaar, is paid $5,000 a year for her services. Exceeding industry is one of ber conspicuous traits. She attends seven or eight hours daily at the office all the copy and illustrations pass through her hands, and beside she does a great deal of writing for the Weekly.

All babies born in the Oneida community are at once taken from their mothers and given to some other women to nurse, and the babies are changed around so that no mother ever rears, or even knows, her own child. Tho object is to destroy all family feeling, and to keep a woman from loving her own child better than any body else's cbil-' dren.

Mottoes for walls are becoming quite fashionable nowadays. The* ladies are quite handy with this kind of work, and the perforated card board and worsted costs but little. The fathers of families grumble, however, when the girls strike him for a four dollar frame to bound a twenty-five cent motto with God Bless Our Home," or "Economy is Wealth on it.

A yoong lady was informed by a facetious acquaintance last week that by holding a looking glass at a certain angle and looking in it she coold see the reflection of Ma(r)s' satellites. In company with her sister she tried the experiment, and the pair could discern nothing bat tbe reflection of their own disappointed countenances until they were reminded tbst they themselves were the satellites of their ma. Then they satellite box or two on the ears of tbe wag who had sold them.

Here," she said, leading the way into a secluded part of the garden, and sitting herself languidly down upon a rustic settee, "here is wbat we call 'lovers' retreat.' Isn't it easy and pleasant like Y-a-a-s," he responded, lazily folding his arms and looking about him, deuced nice, bat damp. I say, let's join the folks in the other part of the garden." And she arose and refused his proffered arm, and stalked indignantly ahead, while he followed after muttering, What ails the gal, anyhow?' 1 here is in San Francisco a gambling house for women, which is said to be gorgeous and magnificent beyond description. The manager is a queenly brunette, who dresses splendidly, and used to be a Washington lobbyist. Tbe dealer is a lovely blonde, and wears a white lace wrapper and lustrous diamond rings. The attendants are all elegantly attired wossen. They play billiards when not otherwise engaged. The who manages the ooncern is said to be backed by several heavy San Francisco capitalists.

Mis. Oommodoc* Vaoderbilt is yoang and beaatiful, slander and dark-eyed very attractive. Although ate baa not lightened ter weeda yet by mors than a banch of violets on her breast, she bss began to listen kindly to the attentions of one favored yoang gentleman to whom rumor announces ter betrothal, which will be made public as soon as tbe usual term of mourning for ter de ceased husband has expired. She was a ooaain of Commodore Yanderbilt, and It was doubtless a mariags de conveyance—youth for wealth—love left out of the question.

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Shows and Show Folks.

A large and delighted audience gathered at the Opera House last night to witness the KiralfV company make their tour around tne world in eighty days. The plot lies in the wsger of sn English gentleman that he coold accomplish tbe trip in the time named. On the trip the people he meets in tbe different countries appear on tbo stage, and as may be imagined the play is one of much interest ss well as instructive. The company is one of much excellence and the ballet troupe, led by Mrs. Alfred Arnold Kiralfy and ftiss Antoinette Corral, la one of tbe best that has ever visited this city. There is a vast amount of soenery and stage machinery necessary for the production of the piece which will be in position this evening when the second and last performance will be given.

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On Monday and Tuesday evenings of next week we are to have George S. Knight and the Worrell Sisters in Fred Marsden's new and best work: "Otto, or a Game of Chance," a bright and sparkling play, abounding with many lively inoidents and laughter provoking situations. Says the Detroit Tribune of Oct 5th:

The Knight Combination commenced a season of three nights and a matinee at the Detroit Opera House last evening and tbe season promisee to be a very successful one. The piece presented is called "Otto," and narrates the adventures of Otto Rutger, a young German jnst come to America, Mr. Geo. S. Knight and of Christine and Lisette Mailer, respectively Misses Irene and Sophie Worrell. The play is rather a thread on which to bang dialect and other songs, dancing, etc., although itself possessing no little merit in the way of effective situations, and giving scope for some nice acting, which is well imgenerally. Mr. impersonal German character, and the Misses Worrell are favorably known throughout the whole country as dashing and skillful aotresses and very fine singers. They all fill .their respective roles exoellently, and of course form decidedly the central attractions of the play. Tbe support is very good throughout, and the piece runs quite smoothly, showing thorough training and a very satisfactory degree of perfection among the members of the cast. There are no disagreeable waits, but every act is brought on promptly in its turn, and scenes

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ce*a with a rapidity that never permits the interest of the audience to flag for a mement.

Among the special features of the are the duet singing of the Worrell listers and the German dialect singing of Mr. Knight, which is unusually fine. Ho is also especially good in German dances. As a whole this piece 'Otto' is highly to bo commended for the excellence of tbe play and its forcible situations, the exoellent music and dancing

whic£ ornament it and for the handsome scenery which illustrates it. The author is Mr. Fred Marsden, who wrote "Clouds." The piece fully deseryes generous patronage. It will be repeated this evening. rOOR JOE.

Amusements are pouring .in upon os thickly, and as they are all of a good class will be sure to attract good audienoes after the long dearth in this respect. On Wednesday and Thursday evenings, Miss Mary Cary, with a fine dramatio company, will present the great Union Square Theater success of

Poor Joe," dramatized from Dickens' "Bleak House." The first production of this drama in New York, by Miss Cary, had a run of several weeks, snd had to be withdrawn to give place to other engagements made before tbe piece was put on tbe stage. The scale ef prices is put at 75, 50 and 25 cents with no extra charge for reserved seats. And allow us to suggest that, where companies make no extra obarge for reserving seats, tbey shoo

Id be encouraged by se

lecting tbe same in advance. :,T ,.

m. a. a. notes:

The first lecture of the Y. M. C. •. "Home Coarse" will be given next Friday evening, Oct. 10tb, at 7:30 o'clock, at the Second Presbyterian church, corner 6th and Ohio streets, -by Prof. J. C. RlcPpatb, of Asbury University, on "The Thing That Civilizes."

Hon. C. F. McNutt, late Professor of Law in the State University, has consented to deliver a lecture on "The Trial of Jesus of Nazeretb as Viewed From a Legal Standpoint," before the Y. M. C. A., as part or tbe Home Connie.

Tbe Home Course lectures will be given in tbe Second Presbyterian church oorner 5th and Ohio streets, on Friday evenings through tbe winter. Season tickets for st lesst twelve lectures L00 single admission 15 cents.

Tbe Y. M. C. A. "Sewing School" was reorganized la*t Saturday, in the room directly back of the Reading Boom. The school meets regularly every Saturday at 2 p. m. and holds a session of 2 hours. Tbe children sre divided into classes about 6 or 8 each, and a teacher assigned to each class. The material is donated onr charitable people, and when made op into garments, given to such scholars aa need then. Thus very many girls are taught tbe useful art of sewing who have no opportunities to learn such things st home, and many who are in absolute want, are given tho needed clothing for the winter. More teachers are needed. All of you ladles who ean lend a helping band, are reossfeed to do so witlwut further invita-

Tbe osasl Y. M. C. A. services will be held to-morrow at the Association rooms, st 4:13 p. m. snd st Court Park at 5:15 p. m. Everybody invited. Singers are especially tcquested to attend and assist 1 tbe«?#kes.

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