Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 8, Number 23, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 December 1877 — Page 1

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A PAPER FOR THF. PEOPLI

SECOND EDITION

Town- Talk.

f'ORlX AWD BEAR IT"

la a mighty good motto, bat easier •aid than done. It is easy enoagb to grin when there is nothing to bear, and it is just about as easy to advise others to grin when they have the bearing to do. It Is easy also—not quite ss easy— but by no means very hard to bear without grinning. When the disagreeable things of Hie come, the painful and the trying things, it is easier to scold,tofret, to ecowl, to complain and bear than it is to smile and bear. Tbe word grin may not be tliH most elegant word with which to describe a cheerful countenance, but an T. T. did not make the proverb—if it be a proverb—he is not responsible for any lack of elegance there may be in it. Bear burdens patinotly and cbeerlully, It, must be confessed that this is a much more dignified form of sdvice than

grin and bear It," but it does not mean half as much and i« not half as acceptable.

Try It. Find a follow with tbo toothache, his face all on one sido, and that side held on with both hands—though hs wishes it would leave—and between the Jumps and kicks of the antic molar, advlao the man to bear bis sore Ills patiently, and keep a cheerful spirit, and ten chances to one you will get a speedy opportunity to put your advice in practice, unless you have learned that divert tio'n Is the hotter part of valor, and Judiciously removed yourself beyond harm'a reach. But tell tho fellow to "grin and bear It," ami, ten chauces to one, you will see a smile,possibly a sickly smile, light tip the braad expanse of his disteudfd countenance. He knows what you mean,and the meaning oomos to him in an ngreable form, so, after all, despite the lack of elegance, just as an old slipper Is more comfortable, though less elegant than a now one that fits nicely, tho rough "slang" (if you choose so to name it) phrase, grin and bear it," is boat adapted for every day use. It would hardly do lor a funeral or the pulpit, but the same may be said of everyday clothes which are a great deal more comfortable, but It would hardly be a proper thing to wear them t» church or to a funeral, and yet that is saying nothing against them. So this alaug phrase la gcod for working days, and these are six of tbe seven. But whether it be grin and bear it," or, put a cheerful couutenance on the tils of life," the philosophy is the same and it Is good, It wonderfully )lELM TO CARRY TBK LOAM.

A man la a great deal heavier when ho is mad, or sulky, or cross, than be is when he Is cheerful, and he has all this extra weight to carry. It Is a great mis tako that people make In thinking that it is any relief or help to make a fuss over losses. In thceo hard times, when real estate obstinately rw fuses to rise, though some people must fill If it don't and wagea will go down when they ought to go up, and business, though improving, la provokingly alow about It, it don't help a bit to fret and fume and look glum. Half the burden, and the heaviest half, tumbles "off when a sasn can keep cheerful. Hard thlog to do, Is itr But It Is a great deal harder you dont do lU Nobody ever g»t any help by pacing the floor, tearing tbe hair, or raving. T. T. has tried it, and knows what he ia talking about. Not only bear, but grin and bear, and the grin. If it cotnes ftt»m a grinning spirit, wjli help to b«ar. By the by, if Bay lew Hanna, who was honored by being made the bearer to Mr. Tilden of the announcement of his nomination last year, would take advantage of bis friendly relations with said Tilden, and whisper In his ear the advice, "grin and bear it,** he would do the old man a great ftiror. It la really pitiable to witness the grief of Mr. Tildan over his dsfoai. To be aura it is no alight disappointment for a man who Is just sitting down In the Executive chair to have another follow poll it away and ait In it himself But, "there's many a slip," Ac., and thla ia one of them, and tbe only way, or rather, tbe beat way is to "grin and bear it." And while tbe

Honorable Bay less goes on this mission, beguiling himself with "MrsC Lofty" or some other sweet song by the way, the Secretary of the Navy might just step over into tbe Senate and whisper in tbe ear of his party friends there the same advice. They have not been gricning all tbe week. The carpet bag mule that has done such efficient kicking in their behalf these ten or a dozen yean, bsving now put his tsil where bis bead used to be, keeps on kicking, if anything with rather increased vigor. It isn't pleasant, bat tbe only way, or at least tbe best way, is to "grin and bear it." In fket, private and public life, constantly provide most excellent opportunities for patting in practice this important advice.

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TWO BARBARISMS.

When we look back over a few centuries, or even one, we congratulate ourselves on the prodigious improvement which we see has taken place in the world. And certainly there is much occasion for rejoicing. The change from but with thatched roof, no floor but the ground, no windows and a turf fire in tbe middle smoking the inmates bslf blind, to the airy, wel^ warmed and lighted houses of to-day, with their soft carpets and luxurious furniture, Is one which indicates something of the possibilities of human ambition and ingenuity. We find tbe same progress in other things. But great as have been oar achievements, with stram, electricity and tbe printing press, we are far from perfection yet. There still cling to our civilization some remnants of barbarism which it becomes us to eliminate. We propose to speak of two of tbem in the present paper. One is our system of spelling and tbe other, our system of writing.

Our present method of spelling is simply barbarous snd nothing else. There is no sense or reason in it. Instead of making simple combinations and using the fewest letters possible we frequently employ as many as we can pile on. Take such words, for example, as "through" and "thorough." Tbe flrst has at most but three sounds and oould be spelled with two, yet we jumble it up into no less than even letters The other has perhaps four sounds but is spelled with eight letters. There is no need of multiplying examples they will occur to everyone who has thought at all about the matter. In order to simplify our spelling all silent letters should beoa.itted entirely, no letter should be doubled and we ought to spell wholly by tound. For instance, "through" should be spelled "thru" and "thorough" "thuru and then we should have a single letter to represent the sound of th or perhaps of tbr. This wud render the art of spelling much ester to akitrir and wud sav a grat del of tim that is note wors than wasted. Ths objection of course presents itself that such a new-fangled orthography would look ridiculous, but that objection really amoucts to but little. In tbe flrst plaoe it would not look any more ridiculous than the old English of a fow centuries ago did and in the second place, if our books and newspapers were printed in the new fashion, it would soon loose its novelty altogether and the old style would come to look as ridiculous as tho spelling of Chaucer now does.

Oar system of writing Is worse if possible than our spelliug. We ought to be able to write as fast as we can speak but with our absurb combinations of doubles and twists and crosses and dates the task is utterly hopeless. Our alphabet of written charactera must certainly have been tbe invention of a savage. No civilised man would have cudgeled his brains for such an ingenious piece of labor-making machinery. Hardly any of the letters are simple while many of them, like m, n, g, y, w, h, k, g, and x, put an eflectoal quietus on all hopes of rapid penmanship. These outrageous forms, together with a superfluity of letters, render rapid writing an impossibility. What is tbe remedy? The adoption of the phonographic system. In that method words are spelled by sounds and tbe sounds represented by simple marks which are easily and rapidly made. The result is that by means or it one can take dewn words as fast as th*y are spoken. Already this system has spread extensively and a large nam ber of men derive good Incomes from the practice of It. It is not the bug-bear It used to tie. It has been demonstrated that it oan be learned simply by application and practice. Now if tbe child, when flrst taught the art of writing, were taught this method snd neverpermitted to know there was any other, be would eoo&e by it easily and naturally. He would find tbe charactera much less difficult to make than tbe longhand letten and would probably acquire tbe ability to write by that method just about as soon as by tbe pressnt one. But even If It required ten times as long it would pay a thousand Md in tbeeod tor by means of It be could save a vast amount of time In after years. Imagine tbe time that would be saved if everyone could put bis words oa paper *r fast

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as he can speak tbem! By the present barbarous system it takes an boor to write what cpn be resd in a few minutes. We submit to the nuisance while the remedy Is easy and practicable.

Innovations so rsdicsl ss these can not be wrought suddenly tbey will be met with opposition snd ridicule. Yet they can be brought about and the way to do it is by agitsting snd discussing them. It is time, In our opinion, thst the discussion sbonld be earnestly begun.

A PERFECT HORSE.

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One of tbe most perfect as well as one of the most beautiful descriptions of the horse we have ever seen ia tbe following by W. H. H. Murray, in tbe Atlantic Monthly:

In weight she might have turned, when well conditioned, nine hundred and fifty pounds. In color she was a datk cheatnut, with a velvety depth and soft look about tbe hair indescribably rich and elegant. Many a time have I heard ladies dispute tbe shade and hue of ber plush like coat as they rau their white jewelled fingers through ber silken hair. Her body was round in the barrel, and perfectly symmetrical. She was wide in tbe haunches, without projection of tbe hip bones, upon which tbe ahortsr ribs seemed to lap. High in tbe withers as she was, the line of ber back and neck perfectly curved, while ber deep, oblique abouiders and long thick forearm, ridey with swelling sinews, suggested the perfection of stride and power. Her knees across tbe pan were wide, the cannou bone below tbeui short and thin the pasterns long and sloping her boofs round, dark, shiny, and well set on. Her mane was a shade darker than her coat, fine and thin as a thoroughbred's always is, whose blood is without taint or cross. Her ear was thin, sharply pointed, delicately curved, nearly black around tbe borders, and as tremulous as tbe leaves of an aspen. Ht neck rose from tbe wither* to the head in perfect curvature, hard, devoid of fat, and well cut up under tbe chops. Her nostrils were full, very fall, and tbin almost as parchment. Tbe eyes, from which tears might fall or fire flash, were well brought out, soft as a gazelle's, almost human in their intelligence while over tho small bony bead, over neck and shoulders, yea, over tbe whole body and clean down to tbe hoofs, the veins stood out as if the skiri were but tissue paper against which the warm blood pressed and which it nvgbt at aay moment burst asunder. A perfect animal," I said to myself, as I lay looking her over, an animal which might have been born from the wind and the sunshine, so cheerful and so .swift she seems an animal which a mau would present as choicest gift to the woman he lored, and ret one which that woman, wife or lady ove, would give him to ride when honor and life depended on bottom and speed." ________

GIRLS, CONTROL YOUR TEMPER. llnd. Herald.] A Chicago bridegroom chose the better part at tbe eleventh, yes, tbe beginning of tho twelfth hour. He had wooed and won a charming young girl tbe consent of everybody bad been gained and gossip smiled upon the match. The course of true love ran unusually smooth and both were terribly in love, Tbe church was lighted, and tbe company assembled to see them married. The bride was elegantly attired, and orange blossoms were unususlly plenty and fragrant. Her elegant dress was made with a sweeping trail, of course, and thereby bangs a tail as well. They were just entering tbe church when tbe trembling and blushing bridegroom stepped on the train, tearing it'from its moor Ings.' The besutiful bride said, 'Oh, dear, how awkward you are!' in tbe most petulant tones. The young man's face turned to a deep purple, but be said nothing. He gave tbe lady bis arm and escorted ber to tbe altar but when interrogated by the minister, instead of making the usual response, he turned to the lady and said,'Ob, dear, how awkwari you are!' dropped her arm, and abruptly left tbe church. Of course it made talk —the most excitiug kind of talk—and of course tbe snubbed bride was brokenhearted. Of course it was cruel and brutal in tbe young man to subject ber to such a humiliation but it was less cruel than if the marriage bad been solemnized, and they had wrangled their whole lives through,as they would surely have done otherwise. A woman who oould not kH?p her temper while she walked to the altar woula be but but a sorry helpmeet when the 'adverse winds and lowering storms' of fate struck tbe matrimonial bark. If she could not silently pardon amiss step of each character, at such a time, in the man she professed to love better than anybody else in tbe world, she could not forgive other and

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offenses which tbo attrition of re wouid produce. The young man saved hiraseir and ber many heartbruise when he left tbe altar still unmarried. Besides, tbe affair illustrated the evil wbich may reeult from a trained dress. Loog trains and bad tempers are closely connected.

SLANDER ON THE SEX. (St Louis Journal.] All women play cards alike. Watch a woman at same of whist acd you'll get a pretty correct idea of bow all women play whist: "La, me, Henry, is it my play? Let me see second band low—that'* the first time around of that mite, ain't It? Well, I'll play—no, I hardly think I will—now you stop look* Ing at my hand—did you see anything— of course I'm going to play, bat 1 mart have time to think—wbmt's trumps— spades—I thought twaa clubs—well, I'll —well, there I" Tben she will clap an ace on her partner's king snd insist upon keeping tbe trick tor fear she will be cheatea oat of it in tbe final eonnW

HOW SPEAKERS WORK. A great many great men of tbe day ein appropriately ssy •'Nobody knows bow hard we woik." Sumner laoored mightily at bis speeches. Morton usually required a month or two to prepare a set speech. Blaine rarely talks without careful preparation, and not a few of tbe most prominent ministers not only commit their sermons to memory, but rehearse tbem before tbe looking alma prior to their final delivery in the pulpit.

People and Things.

Perfumed wooden toothpicks Mre the latest point of civilisation. Two widowers in Perry county, Texas, msrried escb other's daughters.

Let's see what was it tbey said concerning blue glass sbout year ago A new beatitude—Blessed are tbe poor, for their wills shall not be contested.

The Detroit Advertiser has tbe beet bead-line for a funny column—"Smiles and Tears."

A clergyman of Edinburgh thinks it is better to dsnce than to be engaged in Presbytery quarrels.

A man in Louisiana married fivo times in eleven months, and swapped his lsst wife for a shot-gun.

If confession is good for the soul, Mr. Tweed must bsve a healthy old soul by this time.—Chicago Journal.

I do not think that the dangerous element in society lies at tbe bottom more than at the top.—Beecher.

Sir Samuel Baker calls attention to the singular feet that a negro has never been known to tame an elephant or any wild f'i Animals

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A short, sudden suet-ze is the way to pronounce the name of tho Nebraska Secretary of State. The gentleman spells his nameTscbuck.

An excellent quartette—a good temper, a good library, a good wife and a good friend are fonr of the choicest blessings of human life. "Avoid that which you blame others for doing," says one of our wise men. Well, things have come to a pretty pass if a man can't kiss his own wife."

Tickle the public and make it grin, tbe more you tickle the more you'll win but teach the public—you'll never grow rich, but live like a beggar and die in a ditch!

When a St. Louis man has been adjudged a bankrupt he is at once overwhelmed with subscription lists for churches, etc. Christians know when to tackle a fellow.

One man was made famons last week. It was the gentleman who married Miss Vanderbilt—a Mr, Mr.—well! we've forgotten his name, though we do remember that his bride wore a $120 pair of stockings.

A Paris letter writer states tbat tbe young men of fashion in Paris at tbe present day have taken to corpulency, as their particular style, as thirty years ago their fathere affected a romantic slenderness and palor.

Richard and Sarah Gregory, of Union county, Kentucky, celebrated the 50th anniversary of tbelr marriage last week, and said they didn't recollect ever to have spoken across word to one another. Evidently they bad very poor memories.

Tom—"Harry, what makes you look so down in the mouth? Has your savings bank busted?" Harry—"Ob, no, It isn't that, but I'm so confoundedly afraid tbat my girl will make up with me before Christmas that I don't know what to do."

At the recent election in Mississippi the vote for Assessor of Tate county was a tie. In order to spare the county tbe expense of a new election the candidates agreed to "toss up" for it. Tbe Democrat won, but tbe Independents refused to abide by his sgreement, nnd will contest. $£££ "I don't like this time of year," said a pensive-looking man, as be leaned against tbe bar. "It's a sad season. Leaves have fallen from tbe trees, the ground looks bare. The sky Is gloomy, snd It Isn't cold enough for hot wblsky." and he sighed, wiped his lips, and gazed around to find a sympathetic soul to invite him to take another.

Bishop Huntington, in his new book on "The Common Things of Divine Service," rides with tbe Rev. Dr. Bevan on coughing in church, and holds tbat people who cannot refrain from coughing ought to stay at home. He brands tbe church-going baby as a nuisanoe, snd maintains thst it and its msmms ought to spend Sundsy almost anywhere rather than In church.

The Methodists long resisted tbe worldly demands for sbow In tbe architecture af their churches—of late years many of the finest and moat costly structures belong to this denomination. Now, last snd least expected—tbe descendants of George Fox—tbe plain Quakers, who have rigidly ruled against all ornamental deeorstion, and only tbe plstneatof architecture—even tbey have broken tbe rata. At Iowa Palls tbey are erecting a church, and upon the church a steeple perhaps tbe first and only Quaker church with steeple. Tbe ytmnger members said, steeple or no money—and tbe fistbers took tbs money and added tbe steeple. .. ,,

A London letter says "Champagne Chariey" la dead. Cbarlsa Thorpe was born thirty-four years a«o. Hta ffcther left blm |50,000 a year. Being clever, be eoogbt the society of literary men, and liking asocial glass, his mean enabled

him to choose champaigne. Hence a few years ago, after bla exploits hsd been told so often ss to make him comparatively well known, about London, some one embalmed him in verse, and 'Champagne Charley" was long a favorite song In the music halls. He never liked it, and always deuied that be was the original of the song, snd his friends deny it to-dsy, in deference to his memory. But it is true, nevertheless.

An extremely respectable Presbyterian church about fifty miles from New York recently loet Its pastor, and as tbe building is a fine one, with solid wslls, stately steeple, snd plenty of stslned glass, there is no lack of candidates for tbe vacant pulpit. The liat is large enough to keep the church in preachers for a year to oome. A novelty in candidating was developed a week or two ago in conne tfion with this church. A clergyman wrote to one of the elders for chance to preaoh, and was told that there would not be any for aome time, as the pulpit was supplied for weeks to oome. Nothing dsunted, be mailed a manuscript sermon, requesting Its perusal by the official members of tbe church, and saying tbat this was a sample of what might be expeoted if he should beoome their pastor. The brother's case was dismissed wKb gentle smiles, and hia manuscript returned by the next mail, as a "rejected article." 2—•=E=^KSt

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When a Boston girl aooepts a lover she says, "Beans it's you, yes.'—Phila. Star.

A girl baby with three arms has been boin in Michigan, whioh looks as if holding pins in the mouth was going out of faahion.

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It is better that a wotnah should keep her stockings in repair, than that she should know tbe origin of the rainbow* —Scientific American

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The mania with ladies for deoorating pottery continues. A New York desler Sf-ld^1,000 worth of pottery for decoration one day last week.

Pittsburgh rejoices In a female blacksmith who has worked at the forge with her husband for nine years. Thus there is no end to their sparking.

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Tbe "reversible hat" is the most popular as it can be made to represent two different hats worn in one way it is a bonnet in tbe other around bat.

A Michigan 15-year-old girl started for Chicago from near Adrian, the other day, driving a horse aud buggy, and in a note left behind expressed ber intention to go into tbe world and be educated. She was overtaken 75 milea from home and taken back.

Some women love to praise their husbands. Said a Louisville woman tbe other day, in her earnest, honest way "My husband is a smart man yes be is, I never saw a smarter. Why, he has got it flx«Ml so tbat I can go to any store in town and run in debt as much as 1 please, and they can't touch a thing! But of course I wouldn't!"

At a recent religious meetlug a contralto orator, named Mrs. Clark, ox plained how It was. "I know,'said she, 'when 1 was sanctified by this—I made my own dresses, and when tbey didn't used to fit, I got into a rage, and scolded and stormed. Now that ugly feeling is all taken away, and I oould try on my dresses ten times over to make them fit and never get out of patience. My brethren, that's the test."

She was from the country, and ahe went into aMain street store snd ssked to look st some stockings.

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named of yourself to ask each a question Do you suppose Jest 'csuse I 'live in tbe country that I go acootin' around in one stocking?" Then tbe clerk managed to make ber understand that be wanted to know the size of tbe stockings she required, snd she said ahe guessed about eleven- inches would do for the foot, snd as to tbe rest It didn't matter much.

Ex-Senator Foster, of Connecticut, at one time Vice President of tbe United States when just beginning to get on in life, became enamored with a fashionable young lady, whose worth consisted in ber dress. He took his betrothed to sea his parents who were living in sn bumble snd modest wsy. The young miss repressed ber pride snd feelings until tbey had left the house, when she indignantly exclaimed: "Dca't you ever take me to see such common people again." Mr. Foster quietly escorted her home, and left her never to return. Ten yesrs afterwards, Mr. Faster had risen to the height of bis profession and msrried an estimable young lsdy, tbe belle of Boston.

A recent ttaveler says: "I bave at wsys remarked tbat women in all countries are civil, obliging, tender and jsnmsne. To a woman, whether civilised or savage, I never addrsaaed myself fn tbe language of decency and fricftdehljS without receiving a decent and friefediy answer. With man It bss often been otherwise. In wandering

over the barren plains of inbospitsbla Denmark, tbrongh honest Sweden and| froxsn Lapland, rude and ohurlish Flnland, unprincipled Russia, and the wlde-^ spread regions of the wandering Tartar, if hungry, dry, cold, wet or sick, thai women hsve ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so snd to add to this virtue (so worthy the sppellation of benevolence), these sctions hsve been performed In so free and kind a manner, tbat If I was dry, I drank the sweetest draught, and if hungry, 1 ate the coarsest morsel with a double relish."

HEALTH NOTES.

A single drop of susqulodlde ohloride of iron put on corn between tbe toes, onoe dsy, with a camel's hair bruab, will effect a oertaln cure.

To eradicate face pimples, avoid very salt, rich, or greasy food, and take a dose of magneela occasionally. Waah the face with diluted cologne water.

One ounce of alcohol, two drachms of cayenne, one uuuee of kerosene oil, mixed and left atanding a day or two, will cure the worst case ol toothaohe.

Hoarseness or tickling in the throat may often be alleviated by placing a small quantity of powdered oorax on the tougue, and allowing it to dissolve and run down tbe throat.

Speedy relief from burns may be obtained by applying a layer of common salt and saturating it with laudanum. Keep it in position a few hours with a simple wrapper.

HOW THEY QO TO CHURCH., This Is the way the Prosldent goes to church under the eyes of the Hertford Times: 'First comes Mr. Hayes, big, blonde and ruddy, and as he waves the ladies of the party into tbe pew we notioe what beautifully fitting gray kid gloves be wears. Then there is Mrs. Hayes, tboroughlv well dressed In the richest of black silk (and we hear a lady, who had evidently expected something outre, whisper,'why her bonnet is an fashionable ss anyone's!'): and, lastly, tbe President's niece, who, being dark brunette, Is becomingly attired In brocaded silk, of which the prevailing hue Is crimson.'

THE EFFECT OF APPEARANCE. [Philadelphia Press.] Let her who wishes to study human nature as it is go forth some day In the plainest dress her wardrobe holds (one vergiugon sbabbiness, if possible), aud mark tbe manner iu wbich she will be treated inlerior goods Invariably shown flrst impatience covertly displayed as she delays or decllnes.maklng a aelection, an offer to send the goods not made, or else made half conteinptouaiy an air of ill concealed surprise if she tenders a note of a large denomination in payment a critical exsminstlon of the same before change is proffered. .Hi**

A JAPANESE LEGEND. Tbe Japanese have the story of Rip Van Winkle in snotber form. A young msn fishing in his boat on the ocean wssinvited by the goddess of tbe sea to ber home beneath tho waves. After three daya be desired to see his old father and mother. On psrtlng she gave him agolden casket and a key, but begged-, film never to open it. At the village where he lived all was changed, and he oould get no trace of his parents until an aged woman recollected having heard of their names. He found their graves a hundred years old. Thinking that three days could not have made such a change' and tbat he was under a spell, be opened' the casket. A white vapor rose, and under its Influence tho young man fell to the ground. Hia hair turned gray, bis form lost Its youth, anil in a few moments he died of old age. it*

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THE RESULT OF THE BAKER' CASE. [Olive Logan In Ban Francisco CaU'.]6^:

The terrible disgrace wbich has befallen Bakor—who really has lost one off the proudest positions a man can hold,, that of an officer with thirty years' honorable record in tho British ariny, whichhad it remained unstained, would this* very week havo made him a Majpr General—has brought about a determined resistance on tho part of gentlemen travelers to boing left alone with a lady In a railway carriage. I am not j»klug now this is sober truth. Men of posltlon,,es-, ecially if tbey have money, feci that .hey are running the risk of a blackmail suit if tbey conscnt to travel alone with strange Jady. Indeed, a most painfull (lair of this kind did occur only the other dsy to a gentleman who often vls-s^g its America and has been twice to Call-v fornia. His fellow-traveller was a ladyfe by birth and breeding, but fortunately, for the insulted gentleman, she bad fallen into tbat fearful bsblt of drinking'' which so many Englishwomen are afflicted wild. Her own relatives took her away and apologised to tbe gentleman for her misconduct in cbarglnx him with behavior unbecoming a gentleman. No one believed It for a moment but lady travellers slone bsve beeu given ar wide berth by gentlemen since then.

MYSTERIOUS .N1QHT. Night is tbe time for strange noises! id secret doings. Old mother Nsture has plessant and cheery tones enough^ for us when she somes la ber drsss of blue snd gold over tbe Eastern bill-, tops but wben she follows ns up stalrsr to our beds, in her su.t of black velvet* and diamonds, every creak and whisper^ te full of mystery. a

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midnight—what strange, sugges-, tlve, unaccountable noises yon wi% bear! Thestillnessofnigbtlsa vulgar error. Ail tbe deed things seem to be alive. Crsek! Thst is tbe old cbest of drawer* you never hear It crack in tbe daytl me.f|Creak! There's door sjsr, yon know you shut tbem all. Where is tbe latch tbat rattles so? Is anybody trying It softly? (sold shiver). A sudden gust jars tbe windows, although there doea not seem to be sny wind.. Tben steps outsids—a stray snimsl, no. doubt! all right but a gentle motstase breaks out sll over you snotber guat of wind, which accounts for the ri*titag that made your heart roil sol tumble tben a crash something has fallen you are cold, and sittiog bolt upiigbt: and tbe bed trembling, so that the deathwatch is frightened and. t^oppo4 tarklngl.

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