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Vol. 8.—No. 29

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR TUE PEOPLE.

SECOND EDITION

Town-Talk.

LOCKING THE STAB LB DOOR. T. T. thinks that undoubtedly the best time to lock the stable door Is before the horse, or a horse has been stolen. But if this has not been done, and if there are other horses left in the stable, T. T. would suggest that it is the part of wisdom to lock the door after a horse is stolen, because it is more probable that the thief will oome after more horses than it 1? that he will bring back the one be has already taken. T. T. thinks that no horse thief who would bring back a horse would hesitate to call for the key in order that be might pnt him into the stable.

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although the door has not been looked sron enough, to pat on a padlock and turn the key now, on the principle "Better late than never." All tbia long and apologetic and somewhat metapborlo preface is made necessary because T. T. has not sooner lifted his voice, which is to say, bis pencil, against an evil which has become very prevalent In this community, and whldh ought in some way to be changed. Gift concerts, prize paokages of candy, and the like, have had their run, and are pretty muoh run out. But latterly in our Hty we have seen the novel spectacle of wP

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Or, rather, a whole cage full of tigers, let loose as an aid to legitimate business. T. T. is aware that times are bard and that business men need all the help they can get, but still he protests against encouraging the gambling spirit among the best classes of so ilety by means of these lottery prizes. Draw customers by any honorable and harmless methods, but don't attempt to harness Tigers. They are not safe animals for suoh a use. They don't domesticate well. Just as you think you have them well trained and useful, they take a notion to cut up In a very tigerish fashion. The Tiger is not, and cannot be made a safe pet, nor a useful domes* tlo animal. It may seem—T. T. knows that it does seem to some, unjust and untrue to designate this prize business as gambling. T. T. knows that the business men who have adopted it here are among the most honorable and the most enterprising business men of this community. T. T. knows that even more objootlonable forms of this praotloe are adopted many times at church and charitable faljs and festivals, and that a man who refuses to "buy a chance" of some little girl or f*ir woman, on the plea that he does not gamble, is regarded as a stingy old curmudgeou who makes this an excuse for keeping his money. And T. T. knows too, that those who differ from him in sentiment are patrons of The Mall, and while ho writss be is uncertain whether Mr. Westfall will think that bis own business interests will allow him to publish what T. T. writes. But T. 1\ believes that none of these men would attempt to repress

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expression of opinion, and T. T. opem) his column to any defence whioh may be made.

IS IT GAMBLING?

Webster defines gambling "to play or game for money or auy other stake," and then defines game, "to use cards, dice, billiards, or other Instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of tho contest." Certainly in those drawings there is the use of instruments to win something waged upon the issue of the oontest. And what is the spirit of gambling? It isths desire to get possession of something without rendering an equivalent therefor. Men buy lottery tickets in the hope of getting a large sum of money for a small sum, or a valuable possession for a trifle, and lotteries are legally regarded as gambling institutions. Now how does this prise business work? Why are the prize 1 offered? To draw customers, of oourse? Why are customers drawn by it No{. because the articles which they buy in order to secure a ticket are needed or are cheaper, or better than they can get elsewhere. They may be needed.

They may be cheaper and better. Bat if this is what leads them to bay, then there is no need of the prise, for they woald bay without it. But besides getting for their money what they do or do not need, its fall value, they hope to get something for nothing. They go where these prizes are offered because, after a while all who have been there will be allowed to use—not cards, dice or billiards—but "other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of the contest." Hence, according to the definition, and in spirit, it is gambling. And the fact that the purchaser gets his money's worth without the prize, does not alter the nature of the practice. The wbo'.e increase of business caused by tfce offering of the prize csn only be explained upon the ground that customers are drawn by the hope of getting that for which they have not rendered an equivalent—something for nothing.

WHERK IS THK HARM

Chiefly in encouraging a gambling spirit. All experience proves that this spirit in man is not a safe one with which to temper. There are few passions in the bu:uan breast which it is so dangerous to grstify as this. And it matters little whether the prize is gained or lost. When men begin to "try their luck" there is an intense desire to keep trying. And of all men in the world, business men who have clerks in their employment, are the very last who, from motives of self interest, should in any way contribute anything to increase this natural passion for gaming. The losses, sometimes being so great as to produce financial embarrassment, which have come in almost innumerable instances to honest and careful business men through the gambling spirit of those in their employment, ought to warn him against any encouragement of this spirit in the public. And then this kind of gambling, like that at church and charity fairs, is the more harmful because it reaches the very best classes in the community. One who has stood, among a group of children at a fair, when a doll was being raffled for, and seen the eager and flushed faces of these children, the intense excitement, and the triumph of the one winning, and the disappointment of the others, has seen a miniature "gambling hell," and one of the very best, or worst possible training schools for gaming. The class of customers which these business men have, and the class of people who attend fairs and festivals, and the insidious guise under which this kind of gaming makes its appeals, makes it exceedingly harmful. T. T. makes his appeal, in behalf of sound morals, and a healthy publio sentiment, to the reason and the honor of men wham he knows to be both reasonable and honorable.

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TRADES AND PROFESSIONS.

Governor Hantraft, of Pennsylvania, In his recent message to the legislature, devotes considerable space to the labor strikes and riots in that State last summer, which he discusses in their various aspects, throwing out some valuable suggestions. It is impossible," he says, "to read the industrial history of the country without being struck with the decline of the system of apprenticeship, the deeadenoe of skilled labor, and the rapid Increase of common day laborers." The cure for the evil must be the diffusion of technical knowledge among the laboring olasses the State must supplant the bigoted labor organizations with industrial schools and workshops. Heretofore publio education has been too mnch in the interest of a class undue prominence has been given to professional and classical .education over industrial and scientific training. So Governor Hantraft argues and he is right. The rush of young men into what s?a known as the liberal professions is simply appalling. Eight-tenths at least 01 all the graduates of all the colleges in the country become lawyers, ministers or doctors.

Some statistics recently given by the Medical Record show how the case stands with the latter profession. In the United States there is one doctor to every 000 of population in France there is one to every 1,814 in Great Britian, one to every 1,672 in the German Empire, one to evety 3,000 and in the Aus-tro-Hungarian Empire, one to every 2,600 persons. Thus it appears that in the United States there are from three to five times as many physicians, in proportion to the population, as are to be found in the various countries of the old world. Not only so, but the number of medical graduates in the United States is 3,000 annually, or nearly as many as are turnod out by all the countries above named combined! And we know what kind of physicians many of them are: young fellows who, having felled at everything else, have hung round a medical college for a term or two, spending their time mainly In playing silly pranks, and then gone out into some unsuspecting community and swung their shingle to the breese with an "M.

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D." boldly inscribed upon it. A dangerous bait for unwary victims! 8uch are the statistics of the medical profession and if we should hear from the law we should in all probability find it equally crowded. Every city fairly swarms with young lawyers and the schools go on turning them out by thoussnds every year.

There are too many lawyers and doctors—too many men who are non-pro-do

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It is time that fathers and mothers were beginning to understand the situation and to oease urging their sons into professions already badly overcrowded, In the mistaken idea that professional life is more honorable, lucrative and easy than any other. Instead of this it is never more honorable, is seldom as profitable, but is generally vastly more difficult and exhausting than the life oi any ordinary business man.

A HINT FOE UOLY GIRLS. This unfortunate class receives flattering attention from Mrs. Haweis, who sets herself with kindly forethought to show what amends msy be made for the neglect of nature. In her "Art of Beauty," (Harper A Brothers,)

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1878

What is the remedy? Just

what Governor Hantranft suggests—increase the number of skilled laborers— establish

of Industrial art as well

ss schools of law and medicine. In the industrial world there is almost infinite scope and elsstlcity. If the community is amply supplied with producers of a certain class there are other lines of production thst may be pursued with profit. If the town has foundries and woollen faetories enough in it, that is no reason that a pin or a powder factory would not be profitable. The range of productive activities is wide. When one goes from anew to an old country he sees in the latter many branches of manufacture carried on which he knew nothing of in the country from which he came. Yet it would puzzle him to tell why many of them would not be successful in the new country, and they would be if they were undertaken by competent persons. It is the shrewd, far-seeing business man who, seizing on the opportunity and planting some new and needful industry in afield hitherto unoccupied, lays the foundation of a fortune by the investment of an insignificant sum at the beginning of his enterprise.

A man trained to business has a thousand advantages over the professioual man. The latter knows nothing but his profession, if he knows that well. He canqot be an aggressive man. If be is a doctor he not only has to wait until somebody gets sick but until somebody that is sick sends for him. If he is a lawyer he must wsit until some one gets into suoh a mess of trouble as t: think no one but he can get him out of it. The man of business, on the other hand, waits for nothing. If the place be is in don't suit him he goes to another if the business he is in isn't satisfactory he tries something else. He don't wait for things to come to him be goes to them. Young men fail to see this distinction until they have spent several years in professional life and then it is too late to change. Having spent so much time and labor in getting a foothold in their profession they do not feel willing to give it up and branch out into anew and untried field but many a one secretly wishes that he had never chosen a profession at all.

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warns plsin girls of the "small absolute need men have of wivesthat they (the girls) must at all risks make themselves "visible," so as not to be loit in the crowded picture of society. "No woman need be ugly if she knows her points and can it, therefore, be wrong to wish that the "study of points were made more an acknowledged art than it is by those to whom God lias given eyes and an intelligent brain In order to give girls some good advice, they are divided into classes and separately appealed to. The shy girl is counseled, at whatever cost, to oome out of her shell, to read the papers, and talk about the giant gooseberries rather than to be mute. The stupid girl, "the most hopeless of invisibles," "a bore in and out of her family circle,'' is to examine herself steadily,coolly, and in secret perhaps she may discover some latent talent that can be cultivated. "If she cannot understand a problem or a joke, or draw an inference, or learn languages, or play chess, or -catch a tune," it is possible that there may be other branches of science or art in whioh she can draw attention, "Perhaps she can act, or cook, or paint, or manage a garden, or comfort the sad, or teach chit dren." The author might have added that the ugly girls with suck a discovery of talent and occupation, might find themselves independent of marriage and in a condition to lead happy and useful lives, until the men of their choice should oome and persuade them into doable bliss.

GOOD FOR TEMPERANCE [Philadelphia. Record.] What a capital innouation it would he for 1878 if every man should pay for his own drinks.

Shows and Shqt^ Fqlks.

Bryants Minstrels had a good house Saturday night and ssnt the audience home well pleased with their well rendered music and delineations of negro obaracter.

In "Kerry Gow," Joe Murphy, presented on Mondsy evening tho best personstion yet given us. His Daii O'Hara is distinguished by such realistic natur» alness that it is hard to perceive that his action is studied, even when it is known that no excellence is attainable without it. His humor is spontaneous end seemingly unbounded, until ohecked by pathos, fully as truthfully expressed. Mr. Murphy has an excellent and well balanced company with him. As presented here, "Kerry Gow" had several novel featoiee—among them the pumping of real water from a real pump, the, shoeing of a real horse (one of Tom Gist's) and ths bringing of news by real carrier pigeons. Dan Dean added to these novel features some beautifully set scenes..f /".j,

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The flattering reception given and the favorable impression made by the charming Hess Opera Company on their recent visit here has induced a return on Friday and Saturday evenings, the 25th and 26tb. On the first night will be repeated that gem of Opera "The Chimes of Normsndy." Those who beard it before haven't got done talking about it yet, and those who did not have heard so much about it that they will not miss it again. It was by all odds the most acceptable operatic performance ever given bere. While the music pleased the most cultivated ear, it wss ef that character which, combined with the splendid dramatic action—(not always found in an operatic company)— captivated all. Going from here the company had a successful season at Chicago, and the Post of that city ssid "There is no chance for remarks upon the Hess Opera Company that shall be otherwise than complimentary. In its charming opera, "The Chimes of Normandy," it has achioved a great success. The work is a jewel among operas, and fills a niche in the musical world that is well adorned. The company is one of the best in its sphere. Miss Melville, wbo possesses a sweet, cultured voice.clear as a silver bell, is not only a good singer, but an admirableactre:s, and makesner stay upon the stage most enjoyable. Mrs. Seguin has a rich contralto that touches the ear with pleasing effect, its slight crescendoes affording a charm that many a more pretentious opers singer fails to create. The voices are all good in the line, and thero is so very little room for fault finding that one might feel sorry to have made one unkind remark. The little gem of opera will be presented this evening snd those wbo have not already enjoyed the rich treat of listening to it should avail themselves of the first opportunity."

The performers at the Fifth Street Varieties seem to have a bad run of luck. First Slusser, the manager, flitted, and now Harry G. Wells, who succeeded' as manager, after putting in bis pocket, it is supposed, about 1700, has skipped^ forgetting to distribute that portion due the aotors. Tho members of the com pa ny are now running the show on their own hook, with hope of taking enough money to get out of town.

Nothing booked at the Opera House for two weeks. Buffalo Bill lifts hair and tears passion to tatters at the Opera House on the 8th of February.

The Hess Opera Company opened a new Opera House at Dubuque, Iowa, recently.

Lawrence Barrett, of late years, never goes to rehearsal, sending a deputy to read his part and give directions,

Commodore Nutt is said to be On the eve of matrimony with Miss Jennie Quigley, of his lillipntisn company.

Mr. Joe Murphy says he has made more money this season than during any of the seven he has been on the road. 1

Salvlni, in the fervor of his acting, frequently stabs himself. It is a pity that som? other actom do not do that.—Rochester Democrat.

There is considerable talk about Maggie Mitchell's age. We know a lady who knew Maggie twenty years ago, and then they said she was twenty-five. —Cin. Times.

The latest style in married namesMr. and Mrs. Jane Coombs. That's the way they have it written on the hotel registers. Poor Browne!—Chicago Tribune.

Mrs. Zelda Seguin, talking the other day of Mde. Parepa and her husband, said that at one rehearsal the great prima donns came In late, and Ross, wbo is a strict director, stopped the singers and said "Eupbrosyne, this is a very bad example for yon to set the gentlemen and ladies of the company. Yon must not do that sgain." And Parepa obeyed.

Speaking of the dry goods critics who attend musical and theatrical entertainments, a writer in the.Chlcsgo Tribune relates the following experience: He sat at a conceit in front of two young ladies and a gentleman who talked all through the numbers until Miss Gary came with "O Don Fstale," when of a

sudden they stopped. I congratulated myself that they hsd at last found music thst interested them. Presently I was undeceived. One of them broke out in delighted exolamation: "It's grosgrain!*' "It ain't!" said another. I turned, aad discovered thst they were sll three straining their eyes throagh their opera glasses at Miss Cary's dress, about whioh the groe-grain venture brought a lively discussion at onco.•

Miss Rose Eytinge, instructing her dressmaker ss to the costume to be made for her representation of "Cleopatra," advised her to go and see the painting by Picon. The dressmaker went, and saw, hut returned indignant. She said a jeweler should have been consulted and not herself. The explanation is apparent when it is remembered that

Cleopatra's" costume in Pioou's psinting consists of a necklace and—nothing else worth mentioning.

Salrini says that twice in playing Oroecdane" he has stabbed himself in good earnest, so absorbed was be in his part On one oocasion the, dsgger penetrated to within half an inch of the heart. In neither instance did he know what he bad done until the performance was over, but finished the scene with bis stage robes dripping With blood. It is said that one odd peculiarity of the great actor is that off the stage he never can remember a single passage from any one of his many characters—befors the footlights he is no longer Sslvlni, but the man he represents, had be not only remembers his own part, but that of every character in the piece.

Mr. E. A. Sothern closed an eighteen weeks engagement at the Park Theatre last Saturday night. He was called twice before the curtain on Friday, during the performance of "The Crushed Tragedian," and at the close made a humorous speech, in which he complimented highly Mr. Henry E. Abbey, the manager of the theatre, and made graceful allusions to the press snd public. He said Fitzaltamont was no copy of any one he ever saw, but a satire in a school of acting he knew when he was a boy, and he hoped a school that would never return during any other fellow's boyhood. It wss unnatural, forced and melancholy, and ho gave it a kick out of exiatence, and he truated to be able to give it another in the future. He is going to London in April, and will pn^bably return to the Park next season.

ACTORS' DEATH LIST.

The following is a list of prominent people connected with the profession, wbo

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died during the year of 1877:

Ben DeBsr, actor and manager, St. Louis, August 28 E. L. Davenport, actor, Canton Pa., September 1 J. R. Healy, actor, Cincinnati, Octooer 23: Jacob Grau, operatic manager, New Fork, December 14 Matilda Heron, actress, New York, March 7 Slgnor Blitz, magician, Philadelphia, January 28 Agnes Mitchell (Mrs. Wm. Herbert) actress, New York, June 23 Lizzie Pierson, wife of Harry Mitchell, well known in this city, Philadelphia, August 15 Mrs. Maggie Salisbury, wife of J. W. Salsbury, of "the Troubadours," New York, May 3 Lucille Western, actress, Brooklyn^ January 11 John Wood, actor Cincinnati, January 23 Mrs. Wallace, mother of the Wallace Sisters, Grand Rapids, Mich, November 30 Jno. Phillip Stoner, actor and dramatist, N. Y., December 7 Samuel Stickney, circus, Cincinnati, March 20 M'lle Rosini, danseuse, Toronto, Ont., November 10 James Rogers, sctor, Cincinnati, April 15 Thomas Placide, actor, Tom's River, July 20 W. W. Newcomb, negro minstrels, N. Y., May 1 Miss E. V. Proudfoot, New York, April 20 James Lowery actor. Kingston, Jamaica, January 20 Edwin Adams, actor, Philadelphia, October 28 Louise Anderson, actress, Boston, October 24 Cbas Burroughs. Olneyviile, R. I., March 8 Joseph Brabsm, leader of orcbestrs, New York, July 1 Edwsrd Dyes, actor, New York, January 31 Winnetta Montague, actreas, Brooklyn, May 27: Dr. Jones, anthor and actor, Boston, Deoember 29 Louisa Couldock, wife of C. W. Couldock, Toronto, October 1 Herr Dries bach, Hon tsmer, Apple Creek Station, O., December 5 Geo. L. Fox, pantomimist, Boston, October 24, Eph Horn, negro minstrel, New York, January 3 Mrs. Clauds Hamilton, actress, Laporte, Ind., August 9 J. Fred Thompson, ^proprietor of the Metropolitan Theatre. Indianapolis, Ind., May 14, Mr. Marshall, of Almee troupe at Lea, August 25 Annie Moyston (Mrs. W. J.Gilbert),actress, Albany, N. Y., September 1.

STAGS FRIGHT.

We all know, or can imagine, the sinking of the heart, the eold trembling of the limbs, the deafness and blindness that unfortunate creature wbo is called a debutante. Stage fright is the very acme of panic and few are they who have not at iesst felt its likeness at some wretched moment in their lives. It is not mere ordinary nervousness: it is not mere absence of such physical courage as a msn may force into spasmodic life, when he stands at twelve paces from an enemy, pistol to pistol, or even when he wakee some gray morning from a pleasant dream, and remembers that he has an appointment with the hangman. It is setting one's whole existence, post,

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ringing Into sudden sympathy hundreds of hearts which nave nothing in common bnt accidental presence under the same rosf and-the chance feel* desperate, the hearts are so invisible and the eyes look so much like bricks in a dead wall. One fUse turn of one's own eyes may be fatal. One most contrive to be deliberately at one's best, to forget oneself consciously, to intensify one's feelings with spars, and yet keep one's hand firmly on the curb, to do tbe work of experience without experience, and to leap to results without beginnings—to bring triumph out of despair. —All tbe Year Round.

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TOO EARLY MARRIAGES.

The Mistakes of iager Parents—Consult Your Daughters—Don't Hurry^Them From the Parental Roof.

The Albany Sunday Press, commenting upon a sermon recently delivered on the above subject, says tbe truth of the matter is thst under the present system of educstion almost the first use of the mental development that a girl hss secured at school, when she leaves it perfected and accomplished, is to securo a good husband. If she is cold and heartless, it will be done in a mercantile manner, the desirability of the gentleman's worldly position being alone considered: if she is weak and sentimental, and nothing is considered, her ardent fancy changing the most commonplace person into a hero. The mind and heart of no girl who has just leftsohool is sufficiently matured to select a proper companion for life's journey—the union thst will secure happiness to both. Msrrisges of convenience are at the best but shameless bartering of Vodies, to tbe eternal detriment of souls. Hasty, romantic unions should be considered with great caution, for the permanent happiness of one is only the exception to the general rule of misery to tbe msny.

When a girl leaves school she should be allowed and encouraged to see something of the world snd mankind. She should -be tsught that every man who can turn a pretty compliment and wear good clothea is not necessarily the one being of all tbe world created to bring her happiness. She should be told there sre msny millions of men in the world, and that the firat offer is not of a certainty tbe last, and that nothing is lost by a reasonable waiting.

DUTY OP PARENTS.

The fsther or mother who shows by word or set thst they sre snxious to get their daughter or daughters off their bands does not sppreciate and is not faithful to their sscred trust. They should rather be earnest in their endeavors to keep their child in the tender circle of bome as iongss possible, or at least till a suitor comes whom they can reasonably expect to make their daughter happy, for thnt is the one consideration in msrriage above wealth, position, Intellect or beauty. The parents should discuss the suitor from every point, sensibly and even rather leniently, with tbe girl—not, if they dislike him, showing ft in every word, for thee she will think they are prejudiced and marry him out of pique and pity— but coollv, critically showing the chsnces or hsppiness and miserv the wife of suoh a man would have and what" they would be in such a union as she ought to endeavor to make.

FOOLISH TERRORS.

The practice of calling a girl an "Old Maid" almost before she is out of her teens is both silly and injurious, csusing them sometimes to accept those they would otherwise peremptorily decline,

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only for fesr of girls of sixteen twitting them with old-maidism. Thev should be taught—not all at once, but from Y.f he up ha iv is a muoh more sensible age than the teens} in which to tske upon themselves the duties snd responsibilities of married I life, and affords afar better chance for A\j the happiness of all concerned. iy

UNHAPPY MARRIAGES.

How often does the young wife return to her motner's bouse, sometimes with K? her little ones, for long visits, to board or tostsytill death She has left tho home nest too soon she has made a^*'' mistake that perhaps cannot be reme-1' died in this world. And tbe husband^

should not be ignored, for be is humsn tbe ssme as the wife, and suffers also. though perhaps not as intensely. A girl in her teens is not physical! able properly to endure the care, trials and aignity of motherhood. Tbe sleepless nights, I.*'

the anxious watching in tipies of sick-f1' ness, tbe unusual confinement from fresh sir and sunshine—these tell on ber'-' undeveloped constitution, making her1'* prematurely old. She Is too young to exercise discretion in the humoring or it* not humoring tbe wishes and whims of

her husband too young to understand -J the benefit of curbing ner own temper so as to properly train her husband snd children. She is too young to hold the reins of government, even of a small household, with a firm hsnd, and to

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ireside over it with dignity. Therefore, her wait till a few years bsve devel- 'K oped tbe necessary requisites for her to' booome a hsnpy wife, and then tbe saltable husband is easily found.

HOMER D. COPE, tbe dramatic reader, will read tbe drama of "Damon A Pythias" for the Knights of Pythias'', next Fridsy evening, st their reception, which promises to be tbe event of the season. Mr. Cope appeared last season in tbe cities of Boston, New York, Wsshington and Chicago, in which, ss ,. v,, well as throughout tne entire country, be secured, by his wonderfal portrayal *f-* of the characters in this tragedy, an unusually flattering reception. From many Wh press notices we oopy tbe following:

According to our opinion, Mr. Cope is^,jl't the best reader in the United States.— Atlantic Telegraph, June 2M, 1877.

Tbe rendition of Damon fc Pythias wss indeed a rare treat for our literary people.—Chronicle, Auburn, Maine,May 18th, 1877.

To simply say that he gave satisfaction, bat poorly expresses tbe truth.— Clinton, Iowa, Herald, Oct. 5th, 1876.

One of the finest literary entertainments ever given here.—Jersey City Argus.

His rendering of Damon and Pythias, carrying as be did tbe entire cast of characters throughout tbe play, was a masterly effort. As a reader and personator, we think be has no superior.— Atlantic Messenger, June 23d 1877.

The "Evenings with Cope" have proven the most delightful of tbe Association course of entertainments this season. Cope is tbe perfection of pathos, and tbe king of merry-makers. The •econd evening, every avsilable space wss filled, and the Society received a tubstanlial benefit.—Daily Times, Ind.

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