Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 9, Number 5, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 July 1878 — Page 1

Vol. 9.—No. 5.

TOE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

SECOND EDITION.

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"OOHSO. TO THK 8H0W

This was the salution this (Coining, as to ad of the stereotyped "Good morning as friend met friend. The variegated horses and the gaily decorated wagons, the pleasant air and the brisk sky suggested the half question, half salation, "Going to the show 1" and T. T. could not but think how the scenes of the circus are associated with the earliest recollections of most of the boys that are now advanced in years. Still young and old are "going to the show."- *.

T. T. remembers more vividly iu«n any occurence of his early life his first visit to the circus. His father took him. (Fathers are always so willing to take the children to the circus, and it usually takes three or four adults to acoompany one child.) T. T. will never forget what a wonder and delight everything about tbo circus seemed to him then. How bright the spangles were how brilliant the banners, how terribly funny the down was, and how little T. T. pitied him when that awfully grand person, the ringmaster, with gold all over his person, crooked that long lash around his parti aolored legs. And that beautiful creation in the pink tights upon the bounding Trakene stallion—(T. T. suppores it was a Trakene, although it wasn't mo called then)—was she of this world—a poor workaday being like the rest of us Ilow bold T. T. thought the clown when ho took her foot in his hand and tossed her so lightly upon the padded back of the wild steed, and when the horse stopped, rushed forward and said, "What will the little lady have now Banners Ah, yes. Banners this way for the lady." And, ob, wasn't it bully wheD the clown got off that joke on the ringmaster So good that it is told to this day with eaoh returning season, in the sawdust ring. You've all beard it. So cunningly the clown would say: "Marster, can you tell mo the difference between you and a mule?" And the proud and haughty ringmaster, as innocent as Ben Butler before Mrs. Jenks, never thinking iuto what a trap he was being led, answered: No, Mr. Merryman, I do not know. What is the difference between me and a mule?" And then that dear, delicious clown would say: There ain't none that I know of!'' And then bow angry that rlngmister would get, and whip the poor clown until T. T's heart ached for him. Oh, what great people they were and what wonderful things they did. To be sure, the circus, as it existed to T. T's childish eyes, has vanished, along with other child dreams and visions. T. T. knows that ringmaster to be too often a misererablo fellow, who beats bis wife. He knows that clown is frequently a dirty loafer around beer saloons, and is merely rehearsing other men's funny things that had been worn threadbare bo fore he was bcrn. T. T. can now see the patches on the cotton velvet cloaks of the cavaliers in the grand entree, and the darned places in the tights of the beautiful Queen of the Air. The gold is gilt, the spangles are tin, but there are and wHl be till old age comeson, haunting associations of tbo child wonderland in the scent of the sawdust, the "whoopla" of the riders, the smell of the newlytrodden grass, the flapping of the canvas over bead in the summer sun.

In those early days everybody didn't go to the circus—the church people stood aloof—but oh, how they did devour a menagerie. Now the circular seats are filled alike with saint and sinner the worldly and the church deacon «it side by aide. For after awhile show managers got sharp. The circus and menagerie were combined. Usually the animal show is a mere oatch. It is an appendage to the circus to satisfy the conscience* of the righteous, and look attractive on the bigoolored ahow bllta. The circus and the animals an kept tn separate tents, and it is wonderful what a little amount of zoological study is done on such occasions. It Is a poor place to study natural history, unless It Is the natural history of man. People do not slop long to chatter with the

frisky monkeys. Even the giant elephant is soon done, and no lees soon the hateful hyena. But how exceedingly consolatory it is to stand with your back to the cages and watch the vaulting equestrienne, with her life in her foot— and occasionslly her fool in her hand— and stand amazed at the terrors of the trapeze or- the feats of the acrobats, watch the speed and drill of the horses, the graceful poses of the riders, and laugh at the jokes of the clown—to do all these things and then go home and talk zoology to admiring friends, dilate upon the advantages of studying the habits of the animal kingdom, and tell how nice it had been but for the noise and clatter and unbecoming scenes in the circus ring.

But T. T. will not judge circus goers too harshly. Widow Bedott's husband was not a shallow philosopher when he declared "We are all poor critters." "The elephant now goes round—goes round—the band begins to play"—the world goes round and over, and the days of circuses come and go, and are bright days to thousands whose bands are weary with ceaseless toil, and whose senses are dulled by the interminable routine of life. Therefore T. T. will call them blessed and welcome their return and when Barnum comes, two weeks from to-day, T. T. promises to be glad again, as "Good morning!" is displaced with "Going to the show

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Topics of the Times.

MM* 4 I E S O E In the Christian Union Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher has a very sensible article on the married state and the danger, of entering into it thoughtlessly. Young people rush into marriage little knowing its obligations and Responsibilities they see life only in rosy tints and think little of the fiery trials that await them. During courtship all the best points of their characters and dispositions are brought out and the opposite are natur ally kept in the back-ground. They see each other in holiday attire and jump into each other's arms and get married without making sufficient allowance for mutual defects. Then comes the stormy sailing on the sea of life, interspersed with harsh words, quarrels, coldness and neglect, ending too often disastrously. Tbo husband, Mrs. Beecher believes has more influence in shaping the character of the wife than she can have in molding his, She has more of those cares and perplexities which tend to develop irritability and impatience than he and hence has more need of forbearance and tender guidance. She says: "A woman can be easily influenced and molded by gentleness and love, but it is not easy or safe to attempt to drive her either by sternness, studied neglect or disapprobation silently manifested. Ah! this wretched mode of oensuring by solemn s}lence! A good round scolding, or a sharp quarrel even, and then a loving reconciliation—bad as such a course is— would be far less disastrous."

Nay I call me not cruel, and fear not to take me. I am yours for toy lifetime, to be what you make me: To wear my white veil as a sign or a cover, As you shall be proven uiy lord or my lover A cover for peace that Is dead, or a token Of bliss that, can never be written or nneken."

SWEET FIELDS OF EDEN." A rather sad but withal decidedly edifying phase of the "hard times" is to hear an industrious, hard-working man, who is in the receipt of a comfortable income, complaining that he would be quite happy and contented if it were not for bis real estate! Poor fellow few years ago he could not get enough of it tor thought be couldn't). Every extra dollar he could get went into apiece 0! ground somewhere. Nothing seemed good then but land. He would have liked to own a whole county or State. Now be finds that, instead of not having enough, be had altogether too much. He has in fket more than he thought he had —some that he sold, but the purchaser having flailed to pay the original incumbrance on it, he is obliged to take it back again and pay the debt himself. There area good many of these fellows. The writer heard one talking not long ago. He was deriving a really handsome income from his legitimate business and would have felt quite riebt as the times go, but every dollar he could save above his living was required to pay his old real estate debts Had to do it. There was no help for it. He had some property that was really valuable, and this would be swept sway by his voracious creditors if he refused to pay. This la a sad spectacle because it Is bard lor a man to have to spend his legitimate earnings In audi way it is an edifying one, because it shows how unprofitable it is for a man to leave bis legitimate business for speculation of any kind. Such a man will never be bitten again. Though he should live to be as old as Methuselah he would not lire long enough to forget the lesson he has learned and become an inveator In the most alluring Eden that ever sprang forth full grown from a real estate agent's brain. Bat there are others younger who will, and who will learn wisdom in the same school (if not in the

same class) with him. There will alwaya be Edens, and as long ss there are there will be men to buy lota in them.

COSMOGONY.

Among recent astronomical discoveries is that of a dark sun Whose ms» Is nearly seven times that of our sun, but whioh gives no light and has only once been Men by the aid of the most powerful telescope. The existence of another such body has been demonstrated, it ia said, in,the neighborhood of the star Procyon, but has never yet been revealed to mortal vision. Astronomers believe that these vsst invisible worlds may at any time burst out in fiery combustion indeed there have been several actual instances of the kind. Sir William Thompson and Claaius theorized that the planets will eventually fell in upon their respective sons that thess suns, thus magnified, and separated by inconceivable distances, will rush together and be aggregated in one vast, blazing mass, oontsining all the matter of the universe that this grest globe will gradually grow cold and then the universe will be dead. But Herr Loschmidt, an eminent European savant, takes a more hopeful view, namely, that after the worlds have fallen into the suns and the suns sggregated together, the surface of the new globe will cool, but its interior will store up and develop radiant heat from surrounding space. It is calculated from known data that an amount of heat would be thus generated sufficient to convert the interior of the globe to gaseous state and eventually burst the surrounding crust into fragments. Of these new worlds and systems would be formed and this process of death and life go on to all eternity. So much for coemogonal speculations!

REM ED FOR TRO UBLE. Work is your true remedy. If misfortune hits you hard, you hit something else hard pitch into something with a will. There's nothing like good, solid, exhausting work to cure trouble. If you have met with losses, you don't want to lie awake and think about them. You want sleep—calm, sound sleep— and eat your dinner with appetite. But you can't unless yon work. If you ssy you don't feel like work, and go loafing all day to tell Tom, Dick and Harry the story of your woes, you'll lie awake, and keep your wife awake by your tossing, spoil your temper and your breakfast next morning, and begin to-morrow feeling ten thousand times worse thsn you do to day. There are some great troubles that only time ean heal, and perhaps some that can never be healed at all but all can be helped by the great panacea, work. Try it, you who are afflicted. It is not a patent medicine. It has proved 'its efficiency since first Adam and Eve left behind them, with weeping, their beautiful Eden. It is an effioient remedy. All good physicians in regular standing prescribe it in esses of mental and moral disease. It operates kindly as well as leaving no disagreeable sequel. We have taken a large quantity of it with most beneficial results, it will cure more complaints than any nostrum in the materim mediea, and comes neare to being a "cure all" than any drug or compound of drugs in the market. And it will not sicken you if you do take it sugarcoated.

ABOUT REEF.

An inquisitive reporter of the Indianapolis News hss ascertained that very few good oattle are killed by the butohera in that city, and we are inclined to the belief that a similar course is pursued by the butehers of this city. The Newsmsnsays: ''There are not more than half a dozen men who kill first-class animals in this city. They seem to sell poor meat just "ly ss they could sell the best grades. In 400 head of cattle received at the yards and sold to the butchers, not over forty head will average No. 1. The majority are common, thin and second class. It was also learned that there te only one firm that manufactures bologna sausage oat of bull meat and they put it in preference to any other kind on account of the superior firmness and solidity of the fleeh. The popular brands of bologna are made of "chuck" and neck pieces. The best judges of meat say that bull beef is not in the least unwholesome, it is tough and sometimes too strong and rank to be savory, but it is not bad meat to eat and makes fiist-class sausage meat."

in CHURCH NOTESL Baptist Church—C. R. Henderson, pastor. Servioes at 11 a. m. No evening service. Morning theme: "Whom does Jesus Count Blessed

Preaohing at Centenary Church tomorrow attorning by the pastes-. Sab* ject: "Consolation." No service st night.

First Pxsabytetian Church—Alex. Stem**, pastor. Publio worship at 11 a. m. Preaching at Union Church at 4 p.m.

HOB T1CULT URAL MK£TING.Monthly meeting, Thursday, August 1st, at the residence of I* Heinl, at Montrose. Question for dlscumion: "Has the invention of labor-saving machinery been a benefit to the laboring dssses." Meeting at II o*dock. Bring baskets.

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 27.1878. Price Five Ccnts*

People and Thinj|l

All the Cabinet officers but Evaits live within tbeir salaries. Never encore sn unripe watermelon. —Wheeling Sunday Leader.

The poor man outsweata the rich, because perspiration comes from the pore. Variegated slabs of indigestion are what a London paper calls Neapolitan Ices.

If ayoung man cannot marry the girl he wisnts, let him try the girl who wsnts him.

When married men complain of being in hot water at home, it turns out that half the time it's scold.

This is the sesson when a man wants to pull down his vest and drees himself in a pair of suspenders.—N. O. Picayune.

The muscles of the human jaw exert a force of five hundred and thirty-four pounds. Moral—Don't get married, cautious youth.

The Hawkeye man has been to Chicago and stopped at one of the palace hotels. He wrote home to his wife: "I tell you what, Mrs. Palmer is a good cook."

Barnum told a Buffalo Express re* porter that he was pestered with beggars, from the clergyman whose church was in debt, to the tramp who wanted a ticket to the next station.

A scientist says angle worms do not suffer when put on the hook. They wriggle out of pure £oy, we snppsse, the same ass man does when a good-look* ing woman steps on bisoorns.

It is the confession of a widower, who hss been thrice married, that the first wife cures a man's romance, the second teaches him humility, and the third makes him a philosopher.

Rev. John Jasper sticks to it that "the sun moves." We believe him. We have seen it move a corner loafer over to the shsdysideof the street when no other power could so hsve moved him.

A New Yorker hss discovered that women in this country are gradually growing taller, and the mien shorter. His theory is that the use of tobaoco tends to shorten the stature of men.

Impecunious sweethearts will do well to cut out snd learn this item from the Chicsgo Times: "Oregon, 111., July 15.— Coroner Eeyes held sn inquest on the remains of Miss Lizzie Shelley, on Saturday, resulting in a verdict of death from apoplexy. The young lady ate two dishes of ice cream while heated."

A convict at Auburn esosped herd work during his confinement of two and a half years by feigning psralysts. He was so successful in the fraud that he was lifted sbout by attendants, and on his release hsd to be carried to the depot in a chair and placed in the cars. An hour afterward he visited the prison officials and astonished them at bis speedy add full recovery.

Those newspapers which are too proud or too obstinate to retract any unjust or improper language when they have admitted it to their columns should profit by the example of an exchange, which gives notice .as follows: "If any subscriber finds a line in his paper that he does not like and cannot agree with, if he will bring his psper to this offloe snd point out the offending line, the editor will take bis scissors and cut it out for him."

Anew way of filling a theater is resorted to in Paris, where in summer the theaters are empty in fine weather, and only full when the rain drives folkain from the boulevards. There is a kind of chemical paper which changes color with the damp. When the atmosphere is dry it is blue, when wet it turns to pink. The msnsger prints free admissions on this chemical paper, and puts at the foot a condition: "This ticket is only available if the ticket be blue. If it be pink it will be refused."

Clarence Hosier, of Laporte, tbia state, la a queer criminal. Be was a clerk in tbe Laporte post office, andatole money, so he confessed, in order to get the means to dress well. "The first I took," he said, "was $25 to bay a dress suit. I belonged to the choir of the Episcopal church, snd tbe rest were getting new clothes and my means would not sdmit of me baying them, so I took the mgney. I belong to tbe Episcopal church, and never took a dollar without vowing on my kneea never to do so again. Then, st length, when 1 could not withstand the temptation sny longer, I would vow to do it onoe more and thsn quit." When Mr. Hosier dons convict' strlpss he will probably regret that he was not content to dress within his income.

Tax Dsvil baa broken loose over tbe river in Soger Creek and Fayette townahips. One night rsesntly a couple of men going home discovered that ths Bethesda church bad been set on fly, Tbey pal oat tbe Are and saved tbe church. TbeSendford church, the Ptogab church, and that at Hew Gooben have ben horned recently. These, together with tbe 8t. Mary's depot, boned Sundsy night, Himiti property destroyed amounting to some fifteen thousand dollars, and as yet no doe to the midnight incendiaries.

eminitems.

Not even the ghost of a dress train is seen at some oftho fashionable summer resorts^ *. i*•A pretty dress of pole blue bunting add a white chip hat make some women 00k sweet enough to bite.

A French writer, preeumably married, defines trousers to be tbe things which the man put on and women wear.

A schoolmistress on the Pacific coast is reported to hsve shot one of the school trustees oneooouct of "some difficulty not yet explained.":

One of our girls sayf she finds nothing so good for the complexion as rubbing her face on a young man's vest. The young man must be inside of it, though.

One extra strong minded woman has remarked that an old bachelor is a man who, through selfish motives, hss refrained from making, some woman wretched.

In the vote to expel Mrs. Tilton from Plymouth Church nearly all the hands raised were small, white and glittering with rings, says the raallgner of the Chicago Journal.

Mrs. Thomas Wiloe, of Chicsgo who is trying to establish an Inebriate Wo man's Home, estimates that for every twenty drunken men there is pne drunken woman.

The numerous ladies who'£& riinning away with other ladies* husbands these dsys would do well to remember st the lsst moment that man is ia creature to run away from rather than with.

The Chicago Journal asks the Toledo Board of Educotion tbia question: "If it takes a faithful, intelligent teacher seven years to be worth 9475 per annum, how long must she teach to bo worth a decent salary, wi

A woman will carry a pocket handkerchief till ahe loses it. Sne regards it as an ornsment. If the baby's nose is to be depleted, or her own blsck silk is to bo cleaned, she always borrows her husband'a handkerchief.

Queen Mercede's death is now ex. plsined to the satisfaction of all the gossips in Spain. It ia remembered that aa she entered the church on her wedding day, her train-bearer stumbled, an ill omen that was never known to fail. 1

Charles (playfully) "How-much really did that hat ctost, Jennie??' Jelnnie: "If you really wlah to inspect the bills of my dry goods, Charles, there is away to dolt." And what else could Charles do but to propose on the spot?

An old dry goods msn says: "American women are the most Caprlcioua and extravagant class of people that God lets live."—[Albany Argus.] "Old dry goods man" has got a level head—he don't dace to aign hie name to that assertion.—Boston Post.*-J -d •jr&.rj)

The Indianapolis Hetald has found out that in the Unitsd States five hundred and thirty women practice medicine, forty-two pull and fill teeth five dabble in jurisprudence, sixty-eight preach tbe gospel, forty or fifty are in journalism, and the remaining millions keep an eye on their neighbors.

A pretty ghrl' stepped Into a store whsre her spruce young man stood behind the ooanter. In order to remain as long as possible she cheapened everything, and at last she said: "I believe yoa think I am cheating you." "Ob, no," said tbo youngster "to me you srs always fUr." "Well," whispered tbe lady, blushing, "I would not .stay so long bsrgaining If you were not so dear." 1

A wonisu i&i herself in* the Hands of a Boston dentist to have her teeth reorganized. He found them In a very bad plight and aaked her why she bsd allowed them to became so decayed, without coming to him or some other dentist. She replied that .ahe had not had time. "But," be Insisted, "it would not have taken long, and you could have come in almost any time." She saw that he was bent on an explanation, and she fired this at bim like a cannon ball: "Well, I guess if yon had had a baby every year for the task ten years yon would think it was about enough to tend to." He acknowledged that be should. __________

LADIE6, STEP DOWN. The aboard and ungainly practice of mounting the hinder part of1 the &e$ ,on stilts, while the tossprsaa tbe ground and bear the weight, one which it is not easy to write wittf per. It does not need a knowledge e# anatomy to convince tbe shallowest that the foot is forced into a wholly unnatural position, snd is distorted, by the bed being mini and tbe bodfar being made to rest on tbe ball of the toss. It abould be unnecessary to explain tbat this disturbance of the foundation throws tbe whole superstructure not of gear, and deranges every merhantrrt function. But aa tbe foot looks somewhat smaller os seen from tbe front or side when placed obliquely, feshionsble people will cling to the practice.

Thk Turners will ran an excursion to Kvansville two weeke from to-day.

Fashions' Fancies.

Ladies wear gentlemen's flat-folded^ neckties. Alsatian bows are worn on dresses, hats and slippers. '7 .•

Yellow, in all its many ugly shades,

continuee in favor, ir Tests for lsdles are muoh in favor, as they do sway with wraps in the street.

New silver eombs are in the abape of acreeoent, and are delicately carved. Silver jewelry still continues in favor, and the finest of filsgree work csn be foundi»f a, 1,

Lsdles' croquet and lawn tennis dresses sre made abort and trimmed with bright colors.

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Unique watches of tortoise shell are worn suspended from the right side of L, the belt.

Blouses are muoh worn, and one of the neweet makes Is called the "Carmen" blouse.

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The new Worth bow for thehslroon-^g alsts of six narrow stiff loops, strapped tightly in the center.

Russian green is one of the favorite^ midaummer oolors, probably on account of its cool appearance.,

Ladies again wear the hair in the Gredan coil in favor a few years sgo, and *-f which was so Universally becoming.

The Japanese umbrella Is the favorite sun shsde at the mountains and seaside, and makes the faoe look pioturesque beneath.

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Many atylish bonnets are trimmed simply with long loops of narrow whiter!* watered ribbon, which Is the favorite ribbon and color this summer. g'

The Wide White ladies' cuffe growing* favor, and are now worn on the sleeves,' which reach only to the elbow, as well as!.' on the long tight sleeve. ,- v, •.

Ladies' open work stockings are embroidered by hand with colored deaigns to suit different dresses this work istf» done by lsdles themselves with colored 5® worsted and floss, ss fancy work. E

Traveling dresses sre msde with the ^canazou," or sacque with few seams, which beltB in at tbe waist the pockets are aet far back, and smsll double capes finish It at the neck. All dresses, either Bff of muslin or thick material which are cut high in the neek have aepsrate sets of oolors—a squsre sailor collar and a% double collar.

An observer In London writes that the Grecian simplicity of hair dressing tyranlcally the vogue. At operas and|| at theaters, where bonnets and hats are*# prohibited, the hair of buddiug belled and bouncing dowager Is alike free from S rolls, puffs, wads, and frizzes. This** makes a homely woman winning, andak. pretty one demurely rascally to look upon.

Suite of solid percale, dark blue or brown, are more worn than last year, if» that can be. Those most stylish arel made wholly of percale, self trimmed,! and give the effect of a walking suit off silk In the same color. Next to these and more expensive, are the suits trimmed| with embroidered bands. £heee em-| broideries, In eeveral oolors, are alsol: much used for linen suits, which, cool** and Inexpensive, continue to be popular.^

Calicoes sre extremely ohesp fifty a cents—ten yards at five cents a yard—^ suffloee to buy the material for a prin-p cesse wrapper, allowing a flounce at ther^ foot, collar, pockets,'and biss bands for trimming. Fifteen oenta' worth o: French percale in solid color for piping^ Will Improve tbe garment,''but Is not! necessary, and you will wants dosen and a half vegetable ivory .buttons, at' from twelve to fifteen cents a dozenj to: dompleteyonr work.

Emmeline Raymond, In Harper's Bazar, says it may be predicted tbat th coming winter will deliver the lad from .closely dinging, narrow and dresses. Without being ("officially annonnced ss yet, tbe change may be divined through certain symptoms. The short dress has produced and moot produce this easy transformation of the toilette. Tbe dress, in fsct, csnnot be ss dinging as tbe trained dress, and the* eye will easily accustom itself to the laoke of flatness. For the summer, sleeves^ frequently come but just below tbe elbow, bat these are only worn with^^i"', gloves long enough to meet]them, for in France it is not admissible to show tbe^ bin arms in the street, and although tbeoorssgs may be covered by a wrap. of some kind, it would be indecorous to letthe arm be unoovered by tbe extremely long glove which is fashionable. As for mitts, they are worn only in the boose. Theee are made of undreseed kid with embroidered initials and of Mack or colored tbreed embroidered with black or colored silk. They even made of velvet, and of silk, embroidered in gold or silver, forlkshkm has relapsed into a eepriee for metal,and gilds and platee itaelf at pleasure, even ss regards bats, gloves and ribbons.

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—Tan cheapest and best excursion of tbe sesson will leave thie dty tat St. Louis over the Vsndalia line, next Saturday, Aug. 3rd., at 10 o'clock, s. m.

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