Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 9, Number 6, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 August 1878 — Page 1

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There once lived a man who was wealthy and bad all the comforts and luxuries that money conld buy but who was, nevertheless, not happy. There was one trouble that money could not cure: be had an insane dread of death. He could not free himself ef the thought of it. Go where he might the shadow still rested on his mind. He was afraid he should die. One day he was taken sick, bis malady increased and finally he did lie at death's door. The physicians kept the worst from him as long as they dared but at length It became necessary to tell him that bis end was fast approaching. Knowing the mortal dreadthe had of death they were reluctant to break the news to him, anticipating that be would be utterly overcome by it. Much to their surprise, however, when they told him that all hope of recovery was gone and that be must prepare to die, he was not affected in the least, but professed himself perfectly willing "to Join the Innumerable caravan." Death bad no more terror for him, now that be had oome up face to fooe with it. It was distance that surrounded the pale rider with such an atmosphere of horror. The man did not d1«, however, but recovered his health and It veil lor some years after that. But the shadow was lifted from his life and he never again felt the old-time dread of death.

So, at least, the story runs and "whether it be true or frlse," T. T. does not take upon himself to deaide. It serves to illustrate his theme and that is all he is concerned about. How many people there are who live under a shadow not the fear of death, but of something else, of some misfortune, they know not what. T. T. has heard It calltd "borrowing trouble." These people can't live by the rule that "sufficient uuto the day is the evil thereof." There maybe no evil in the day and so they look forward to a day that shall have evil in it. Tb&sun of prosperity may shine never so bright upon them but they don't enjoy his beams they are afraid a cloud will oome over him. That fear itself is worse than any oloud. T. T. knows some of these people and pities them. T. T. knows another kind of people who have no snob foolish fears. They enjoy the good things of life as they go along, with a hearty zest. They expect some bad luck but they don't anticipate it. They think it is bad enough when it comes and that there Is no great inducement to run forward to meet it. When it comes they bear it as well as they can and cure It as soon as possible. And their ei\joyment of prosperity has given them strength to bear adversity the more easily. "Take no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself." T, T. believes that is a good rule to live by. One day la enough to live at a time. Whenever we try to crowd two or more days into one, and especially the evil of them, we tnake a bad job of it. The anticipation of misfortune is often, If not always, worse than the misfortune itself. T. T. don't pretend to be much of a christian but he does believe in the old-fashioned notion which his mother taught him years ago, that the good Lord does give us strength according to our need. We think that If a certain misfortune should overtake us we could not bear it, and perhap# we couidnt today but the misfortune is not coining to-day. When it comes it will be time enough to see whether we can bear It or not.

T. T. is not arguing thai pti8|le should have no prhdent forethought, that they should not lay by something against the day of possible adversity. Not by any means. It Is as much their duty to make such provision as It la their duty not to foolishly anticipate misfortune and suffer from It before it oomes. T. T. Is a philosopher and consequently takes things as they come. Therefore he is a happy, contented man, as his face bears evidence. He don't find life altogether even. Sometimes the r#d goos down Into a deep vulloy and then creeps wsy

up along the top of a mountain. But T. T. jogs along all the same. When there is a beautiful landscape spread out beneath him he drinks in its beauty and enjoys it as much as any philosopher could. But when the road descends Into the dismal swamp and there Is nothing but gloom ahd ugliness to be seen, T. T. keeps his eyes bent upon the ground straight ahead of him and takes care that his old blind horse shall not pull him off the toad into the swamp. It seems dreary and lonesome enough at such times but T. T. Is philosopher enough to know that he'll get through the swamp sometime and out into the open country again. T. T. thinks that is the best way to make the journey of life and that it is very foolish to have an imaginary cloud hanging over, and pursuing one allthe time. T. T. advises all his saturnine friends, not to leave off pursuing shadows," but to make the shadows leave off pursuing them,—to tske the sunshine and clouds ss they oome and make the best of them.

Tdpics of the Times.

DEBTS AND MORTGAGES. How much do I hesr for this little home Going for the mortgage! Gentlemen, do I hear any more? Going— going—gone, to the mortgagee. Pass out the furniture." This is the red flag and this Is the communism that is demoralizing the poople.—Exchange.

In another paper we find a writer advocating the doctrine -that it should be made a penitentiary offense to take more than two per cent interest for money. This is the era of wild financial theories. Men who have never made themselves acquainted with the most elementary principles of political economy plunge into discussions of finance and currencywith as much confidence as if these subjects bad been their life study. They think they know all about it when in truth they are enveloped in a more than Egyptian darkness. Now there would be no more sense In punishing a man for taking ten per cent, interest for the use of his money than there would in punishing him for taking fifty cents a bushel for his potatoes or a dollar a bushel for his wheat. It is no more the province of the Legislature to fix the prioe for which money shall be loaned than it Is Its province to fix the price at which produce shsll be sold. There is a market price for all things—not fixed by any manor men, but established by the laws of supply and demand. When potatoes are plenty they are cheap when scarce, they are high. So with money. It Is hard to see men sold out of their homes on the foreclosure of mortgages but this only illustrates the danger of going in debt. How did the mortgage come to be there? If the home had been free of debt it would have boen safe. As a matter of faot the mortgagee who buys the property would nearly always rather have the money due him. He takes the property because he can't get the money. As long as men will borrow money at three times Its real value and give mortgages on their homes to secure Its payment, just so long their houses will be sold over their heads. The way to help It Is to quit borrowing at high Interest—to quit borrowing at all. That course will make money plenty and Interest low. We have been a debt-ridden nation, and our debts are being paid off by national bankruptcy. We must tack about and try another course—the pay-as-you-go system. A few years of that practice will give us homes that will bid defiance to the sheriff's hammer.

THE ANNALS OF CRIME. The history of crime, it is written by the daily newspapers, is a curious subject for study. Nothiug could be more remarkable than the boldness and ingenuity displayed by eriminals in the pursuit of their ends. There Is little repetition of successful devices. To repeat them would be to fail. The public onoe advised of the method by which a successful crime has been committed, is put upon its guard and a second attempt of the same kind could hardly succeed. But the criminal is qot discouraged. His inventive genius is set to work he devises a new plan and the next day the papers chronicle Its success. One day It Is a refined and high-bred lady, boldly taken from a passenger car in which she Is travelling, by two villains who plausibly represent to the conductor that the lady Is Insane, that they are her fHends and are charged with the duty or conveying her to an Insane asylum. Thoy take her to a house of prostitution, rob her of jewelry and valuables and, leaving her half dead with surprise and fear, make their escape unmolested. Could such a thing be done again? No beoauae no conductor could be now imposed on by such a story. But by and bye there will be some ether villainy not less daring and ingenious perpetrated. It will be a new piece of work—a novelty in the art of crime. The press has teemed with accounts of termers being swindled by sharpers. One way has been to sell some worthless article and get the farmer's note In payment. On the back of the nota, at the top, would be written a contract that the note was not to be paid until the article

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was sold, thus destroying its negotiable quality. The unsuspecting farmer did not notice that the note had a wide margin at the top and that when he signed his name on the back, under the contract written there, the contract could be cut off, leaving his name, and thus making a complete negotiable note! If all thjB ingenuity snd energy in the perpetration of crime were exerted in the direction of honest and legitimate labor how different would be the effect upon •q^etyi *S

THE ART OF SAVING. The road to Independence lies, for most people, through the narrow gate of Economy. Itis not always a pleasant toad but it leads to a pleasant place. It requires sacrifice but it repays the sscrifice with interest. There are some who do not need to economise—people with ample fortunes, who are able to spend pretty much as they please. The more this class spends the better for society. What would be praiseworthy economy for some would be downright stinginess for them. Nobody is rich enough to be wasteful butthoee who are able oilght to purchase freely the various products of genius and Indus* try and thus give employment to the workers.' The rich err by hoarding, the poor by speeding too freely. The road to Independence lies through saving something of what is made, not always In making much:' It is only when the expenses are toogreat that the business does not pay. The household is like a business enterprise It is never financially prosperous unless more oomes into it than goes out. The art of saving consists in buying well. A person of limited means must resist many temptations to bny things. Too many people make the mistake of buying a cheap article instead of a dear one and imagine they are economizing. The mistake consists in buying the article at all. They could not afford it, cheap or dear, and it is a wise rule to buy few things but good ones. Another essential rule in the art of saving is never to spend money before you get it. Do without the coveted treasure, be it a luxury or neceesity, until the money is In your pocket, and then you will know better bow It ought to be spent. Buy substantial things. If the amount of money that la worse than thrown away each year for evanescent trifles and showy gew-gaws, by people In embarrassed circumstances, could be ascertained and footed up, the result would be sppalllng. This money Is simply wasted, and the saving of it would go far towards putting the spenders in a comfortable condition.

ENCOURAGING LAZINESS. Many of the suites of rooms in the new flats are without kitchens. There are restaurants on the ground floor, where tenants are supplied with meals at a fixed price per week. The housekeepers (if women who live In this way can be called housekeepers) in theee apartments say they would rather have meals In the restaurant than be bothered by servsnts—that It is very hard to get on with aervants in the French flats. The real reason is that they don't want any trouble. Many of them are too lasy too eat, If they conld get on without doing so. It is sheer laziness that brings them into fiats at all. If they have to ascend only one story, the elevator must take them up. They wont climb even one flight of stairs. They must have all their rooms on one floor, so thst no exertion whatever is required in going from one to another. They got rid of the stair climbing by going into the flats, snd now they want to get rid of housekeeping by abolishing .the kitchen. The washing is given out, of course, and one servant can do the daily sweeping and dusting and making of beds. Madam Is thus relieved of everything in the wsy of housekeeping labor, and can give ber whole time to reading sickly novels, petting some miserable bit of a dog, trying on this drees or that wrapper, or going out to see the styles and plague the dry goods clerks half out of their senses, It Is pretty safe to assume at the start that she has no children to worry her or take np time. A few days ago I heard a woman who lives In one of the largest flats ssy, 'There la not a child in the whole house, and that makes it very pleasant.' Flats in which regular housekeeping can be dispensed with are the most demoralizing contrivances that have yet been introduced In New York. They retain the name of home without a single one of its essential features. They may be a triflle better than boarding houses, but the difference Is very slight.—N. Y. Cor. Buffalo Courier.

SUDDEN A WAKENING, Mr. F. Peppard is the inventor of a curious contrivance for awakening a sleeper at a given hour. The apparatus Is to be affixed to an ordinary clock it Is so arranged that when the hoar hand of the clock touches a button, an electric circuit is completed the minute hand passes over the button without effect. There area series of holes for the differ ent hours, into any one of which the button can be pushed, according to the

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ous ordinary methods of alarm. But this contrivance haa a yet more effective method for arousing a deaf man or any sleeper who la willing beforehand to prepare himself for a ahock. A bracelet la provided which can be put on the wrist at the time of retiring to this, flexible wires are attached, and the electric discharge will pass through it at the appointed hour. A man who could lie down to pleasant dreams with such an apparatus fastened to his wrist, would naturallv need the violence of an Electric shock to awaken him.

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People and Things.

hearty jest kills an ugly face. A homely card player is plain deal-

StV.N i£Z''V i. New umbcellaa have a scented bottle hidden Jn the handle.

Prescription for a pugilistic lover— "take one of your own sigha." Indians never kiss each other, and having seen a few Indians, we can't Maine them.1

Whens tooth begins to foel aa if there was a chicken acratching at ita root, it's time to pullet out.—Yonkers Gasette. man is taller in the morning than at night by half an inch or more, owing to the relaxation of the cartilages daring the night. .v ... iC. ,:

A Boston scientist has discovered (list a bad marriage Is like an electrical machine. It makes you dance, but you cant let go. "Pa," said a four-year old, "there's a poor msn out there that would give anything to see you." "Who Is it, my son?" "It Is a blind man."

Many men find plenty of time to do a mean act, who are unable to spare a moment to perform an actof chsrity.— Whitehall Times.

A great big ripe tomato, If well aimed, will do more to make an orator forget his subject than allthe cheers a mad crowd can utter.—Free Press.

An old bachelor said be once fell in love with a young lady, but abandoned all idea of marrying her when he found that ahe and all her family were opposed to it.

One 'hundred and twenty thousand dollars a year constitutes the salary of President MacMahon, and he is likewise allowed sixty thousand dollars for perquisites.

We buy our experiences at a great price by the time we are forty, and then offer to give them away to young friends of twenty, but can seldom find.anybody who wants them.

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When a bridegroom finds all the clothes be owns in the world hung one over the other on a hook behind the pantry door, he realizes for the first time thst ihe honeymoon is over.

Mrs. McCormack, of Salesvllle, Ohio, haa just given birth to five children. Thus Ohio goes on. There will be no room for anybody who doean't oome from Ohio directly.—Buffalo Express.

A wag tried to annoy a popular preacher by asking Jiim whether the fated calf was male or female. "Female, to be sure," *'for I see the msle"—looking the questioner full in the face—"yet alive In the fleah before me." ,*• •,

A three year old youngster saw a drunken man "tacking" through the street. "Mother," said he, "did God make that man?" "Yes, my child." The little boy reflected a moment and then exclaimed: "I wouldn't have done it." .a,*-

No en&kgtfnehtwas ever consummated by a marriage in Boaton where either of the parties intimated that the other didn't know beans. This is the deadliest insult that can be offered to a Bostonian, next to sneering at the common.

There may be beauty in a rose there msy be rapture in listening to music floating over silent waters there may be loveliness all around, but a man seldom pays much attention to them while he is breaking in a pair of tight boots.— Puck.

The things whlcl^ people are willing to give us are the things we do not want. When Lincoln was sick with the smallpox he said to his attendants, "Send np the office seekers. At last I have got something for each one of them."—New York Herald.

Benjamin F. King, jr., of New Bedford, recently coughed ap a splinter of wood which accidentally pierced his flesh and broke off. He had olten experienced sharp nenralgio pains in the vicinity of the wound, which have now entirely ceassd.

George Francis Train has his match In Manchester, England,in the person of a man who says that ha lives well on twelve cents and a half a day. For twelve years he has abstained from any food ssve bread and water, yet at the age of filty-one he laIn excellent health.

Quimby perceived one morning that the milk he was pouring into his coffee cup wss none of the richest. On this he said to his hostess, "Haven't you any milk that is more cheerful than this?" "What do you mean by that?" replied ahe. "Why, this milk seems to have the blues," wss his ready retort.

An interesting salt Is to be brought against the elevated railroad company in New York. An engine dropped a live coal on a bald man'a head. He wss busy st the time and did not notice it, though b^ smelled something burning that seemed as though some one was frying meat In the vicinity. He kept about his work until his attention was called to the fire, and before be oocld put it out the conflagration bad extended over his

entire head, and now :his bend looka like the map of Africa. The iailroad company argues that he did not uas proper diligence in patting thefre butt—Peck's Sun.

To some pungent remarks of a pro* fesslqpal brother, a western lawyer began hisreply as follows: "May it please this court:'Besting upon the couch of republican -equality as I do, covered with the blanket of constitutional panoply as I am, and protected by the agis of American liberty aa I feel myself to be, I despise the bussing of the professional insect who has just set down, and dsfy his futile attempts to penetrate, with his pony sting, the- Interstices of my impervious covering.^'

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At morn when we're repotfng Jts How well his mission he fulfills By keeping os from dosing! The devil's emissary he,

And sealous past'comparlng: '••"Z-xu-While others merely tempt as, he Insists upon our swearing. ,• *.

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Feminitems.

Why is a lady's bonnet like a cupola? Because it covers the belle. y/ "This mast be looked into," ss.the young lsdy said to the mirror.

Although a woman's age is undeniably her own, she never owns It. A man may not be sharp, but, if he marries a shrew, he will be a ahrewed fellow.

Archery is the most dangerous amusement for young women. They are sure to mske an-arrow escape from their beaux.

The hair of a New Orleans belle will be bright purple until It recovers from her sttempt to.bleach it from blade, yellow.

There is a particular coloring, which is in woman, powerful above all beauty, wit or genius—that subtle something whloh we name "charm."

Miss Emily Soldene, whose mouth enables her to kiss three people at once, giving sstisfsction to each, Is to return to America in September.

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Dreaming that she could walk,restored the use of her limbs to a Lebanon (Ky.) colored woman, who had been stricken with paralysis four years before.

A musical critic says of an expert lady pianist that her touch haa the weight of twelve pounds but a mischievous little son of hers ssys it weighs 240 when she's angry.

Whenever young ladies learn so to stick a pin in their apron strings that it won't aeratoh a fellow's wrist, there will be more msrriagee,—Turners Falls Reporter.

Chicago has a natatorium on the lake shore where the females bathe. St. Louis paper ssys the women sre so homely that fish won't live within three miles of the shore.

Scene, or rather heard, on a Lowland horse car: Conductor—'"There ain't no seats, ladies, unless you want to stand." One of the ladles—"Well, I wont ride if I've got to walk."

Nothing will harass a worthy man more than the comparatively trifling discovery that his Wife has cut a corner lot out of his undershirt for a powder rag.—St. Louis Journal.

Michigan school teacher received the following unique excuse from a pupil's mother: "please Excuse Minnie for she wss helping me. She is a grate help. to me thou Small ahe may be I would miss bur if the Lord should call hur at any time and oblige Mrs. ." •coordlng to that wicked sheet, the News Letter, there la a girl in Santa Barbara with each a big month that the other day, when ahe smiled st a fallow on the street, a kind-hearted little boy exclaimed with great earaestnsM, "Look out, miss, your lid's coming eff!"

The American losses of Nilsson sre reported as from 930,000 to 950,000. They sre chiefly on Western mortgages st high Interest, the property of which hss sunken In vslue much below the loans upon them. London Joker says that the lady cannot have much hope of them as she hss sent no one but her husband, Bouzaud, to look after them.

THE JAPANESE SIP VAN WINKLE. The Japanese have the story of Rip Van Winkle in another form. A young man fishing in his boat on tbs oesan was invited by the goddess of the ssa to her home beneath the wavea. After three days he dsslrsd to sse his old father and mother. On parting ahe gave him a and a key. but never to open it. At the where he lived all was changed, snd could get no trace of his parents until an aged woman recollected of bearing their namea. He found their graves a hundred years old. Thinking tost three days conld not have made such a change, and that be was under a spell, he opened the caaket. white vapor rose, and under its influence the young man fell to the ground. His hair turned gray, his fona lost its youtb, and in a four moments be died of Old age.

QUEL TE1C POETS. 'V. THB FLY.

WhenihltflmifYtfly,aoairy anlfsiry,'V.. fe Ooncludeth no longer to flatter, He bosses around, with a mournful sound

And buries himself in the butter. ORBBM AFPUBB. To many a aohoolbay*s fond delight,

Now oomes the festive apple green He early puts some oat of sight— The pain begins at 805. \, outcsmum sono. ti His Bosom heaved with emotion

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If ever I cross the ocean, vws „*Twlll be in a schooner of beer." A FSAUT OF WIFE.

Wives of great men all remind us We can make onr lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us

Widows worthy of 1 our time. Therefore, give your wife a send-oflT

By the life insurano* plan A Fix her eo that when you end-off: Che can sooop another man. —Cincinnati Enquirer. /^ASnBATIOK. I "It's well to have the mercury

A little bit aspiring It's well to have an atmosphere That generates perspiring It's well to sample now and them

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It's swelter all the time. ft \j —Yonkers Gasette. *v WNKTT-KiaHT n» TH» SHADK. Oh, for some cool, umbrageous spot, Where It lsntsodof-goned awfully hot Where the—where the—where the—where the—-Where-the—it I eould—where the—where— Oh, for some cool umbrageous spot Where It isnt so everlastingly hot Some plaee wh«r» the—the—the—where*Where the—some plaoe where the—some— Oh, for some eool umbrageous spot Where It Isnt so dreadfully, horridly hot Where the broens where the whispering Breeses—where the whispering breeseswhere the*— ui---. Oh, for some—

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Paisley publican was complaining of his servant maid that she could never be found when required. "Shell gang oot 'o the house," aaid he^ "twenty timee for once she'll come in."

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A SABBATH MORN IN THIS COUNTRY. How still the morning of the hallowed day! Mute is the voice of rural labor, hushed The ploughboy's whistle and the milkmaids soag, And the wish is general that they might stay hushed. The -soythe lies glittering In the dewy wreath Of tedded gran, with faded flowers* That yestermorn bloem'd waving In the bieese: sri And when the old man oomes along ,• And finds it there, he will startle the quiet Of the hallowed day with shouts and roars And takings on of one kind and another That will make a hired man slttk into his boots. Sounds the most faint attract the ear—the hum Of ear:y bee looking for some oae to sting, The trickling of the (mountain) dew, glug, glug, Glug. gluggerty, gluggerty, glug, glug! The distant bleating, midway up the hill. Of the heartbroken goat when ne first discovers That he cannot climb a tree! .««. -Oil City Derrick.'

A WRITBR for the New York Evening Poet describes camping eut in the winter time in the Northwest, where the people travel with doge and on snow shoea—'Winnipeg,Manitoba. His account may be read with a sense of refreshment just before going to bed one of these sultry nights: "When the light begins to fade over the silent plain, and the grayish, opsque pall settlee down upon the frozen landscape, the traveler looks about him for a good camping plaoe. A poplar thicket or a pine bluff supplies all the requirements—a few dead trees for fuel, a level plaoe for his fire and his blankets, and 'broom' for his bed. Every one sets to work ss qulokly ss possible, One unharnesses the dogs and unpacks the siedsee another oolleots dry loga a thira outs fine ohtps and starts the fire while a fourth shovels away the snow in front of the lire with a anow eboe, and strews the cleared ground with the pine brush. Then all squst down, smoking and the cooking of sup-

the hungry dogs seated round waltfor their sbsre. pipe and smoke follow, then the blankets and robee sre spread down for the bed. The operation of undreeelng is reversed, and the traveler literally dresses for the night, covering his head and all, and placing his feet as near the fire as he dare. Allnuddie together as closely aa possible, and, when alienee reigns, the dogs Creep softly in toward the fire and lie at the sleepers' foet. Then begins the cold. It has been inexprsssibly cold all day aa the darkness creeps on the wind lulls, and the frost oomes out of the clesr gray sky with merciless rigor. The mercury in the thermometer dnks down, down, till It disappears in the bulb, and may be used aa a ballet the twentiee and thirties below have been passed just when a faint tinge of coming dswnsteals over the eastern horison it will not unfrequently be In the fortlee below. The traveler is tired with his forty miles' march on snow shoes. Lying down with blistered feet and stiffened limbs, sleep bse oome to him by the sheer foroe bat the dim consciousness of cold never for an instant waking brain and, aa he llee in a huddled heap beneath the robee, be welcomes the abort-haired, shivering dog, who, forced from his cold lair In the snow, aseks warmth upon the outside of his master's blankets. "Strange aa it may appear to those who, living in warm nousss and sleeping In eoey noma from which all draughts are sealoualy excluded, deem taking one's rest in a poplar thicket at such a tempsrature next to an impossibility, itis quite the reverse. The men who brave such dangers are made of sterner stuff, and do not perish so easily. On the other hand, it frequently occurs that when, before dawn, the fire again glows rnddily and the cup of tea is arunk hot and strong, the whole discomfort of the night Ts forgotten—forgotten, perhaps, in toe dread anticipation of a cold still more trying in the day's journey to come."

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Most people in cleaning lamp chimneys, use either brush made of bristles twisted into a wire or a rag on the point of scissors. But both of these are bad, for without great carethe wire or srissor will serach the glass, as a diamond does which under the expansive power of

which under the expansive power heat soon breaks, ssall acratchsd glass wilL If yon want a neat little-thing thst oosta nothing and will awe you half your glass, ties piece of soft sponge the

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