Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 9, Number 15, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 October 1878 — Page 1

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THE MAIL

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Town-Talk.

DIE If THE HARNESS.

The only excuse for not dying in the harness is ill health, or some infirmity that makes it impossible for him to put on the harness. No man has aright to stop working as long as be can work. Retiring from business is what no man has a right to think of doing, nnlesslt be to retire to the sick bed or the grave. What if a man has made a fortune! What if a man can live comfortably without work, or doing business! He cannot do it. Bat if he oould, he has no right to do it. T. T. does not propose to turn preacher, but if he were to do so, he would preach against the selfishness and folly of giving up regular employment. Suppose a man to be a manufacturer. He knows Just how to manage business of that kind. He has been successful. He employs a large number of men. They have good wages and comfortable homes, and comfort in their homes. But this man has made a fortune for himself, and has all he needs, and all be will ever need, and more too, and so he says: "I'm going to retire from business and take my ease." It is mean and selfish for him to think of suoh a thing. He has no right to think of himself alone, or of his family only. Here are a hundred other men and women—more or less—and their children, whom be can help by continuing to employ h^s experience, skill and means in his manufactory. What right has he to say to all these men and women and children: "Look but for yourselvef hereafter I've got enough"? If he has enough, then he ought to keep on in business to help them. "But he ought to get out of the way and give somebody else a ohanoe." Nonsense! He is successful and the next man may not be. And then about this matter of "getting enough." Enough for what? Enough to eat, drink and wear. Enough to keep up bis position in society. Enough to educate his own children and take oare of his friends. But theie are plenty of people in this world who have not enough and cannot get enough for all these purposes. And if he has enough for these things, then he ought to keep In business and keep on making money to help others. Wouldn't it be a jolly sight to see a man poshing business for the sake of making money to feed hungry people, give comfort to poor sick men, women and children, to edu* cate worthy young men and women, to help aspiring and worthy men into business, to provide homes for the homeless children, and such like? That would be a joke that would make angels laugh, if T. T. is not mistaken about their appreciation of good things. Every man, if he has enough for himself, can belp somebody else. And he ought to do this fust as long as he has strength for it. In a world where there is so much suffering to be relieved, and so much good to be helped, a man has no more right to be idle because he has enough, than hasa man to refuse to help another out of the water because be is dry and sate himself There are lotaof drowning folks that need help. There are lotaof climbing folks that need boost. And vr'hen a man is safely out of the water himself, and when a man la dooe climbing for himself, he'd better keep busy in throwing a ro|e to other follows, and in helping other climbers. There now, bow Is that for preaching? Wasn't a Hue D. D. spoilt to make a poor T. T, for The Mall.

But there are two other reasons why people ought not to think of getting out of the harness, that are not quite so much in the

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deal harder to have nothing to do. A man cannot possibly give np his ills long habits of industry and be happy. T. T. has been young, and now Is old, and has seen a good many men who had retired from business, and be never saw one who was able to do buslnesswbo was half as happy In his retirement as when

Topics of the Times.

—-AUTUMNAL TINTS.'*

Vol: 9:~lNo^?^.T|ly,^ TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12,1878.

In active business. More than this, a mile, two yards behind another man, time and again has he known men to and not utter a syllable, the whole time sicken and die, from no other reason, as simply because he Is a stranger to yon. be believes, than this change. However Rarely indeed does it happen that this may be, It is oertaln that ^n nine kind and sociable advance is met with cases out of ten, probably ninety-nine rude rebuff People are pleased out of a hundred, the man who, for the the flattering condescension and give sake of rest and enjoyment, goes out of glad response to it. An interesting conhis business, Jumps out of the frying-pan versatlon ensues which makes both into the fire, Instead of making a change time and dlatanoe seem not half ao long, that lands him in heaven on earth,

brings up in t'other place before his Who has not learned by experience that time. No mad while in health can re- a friendly oompanion will steal away tire from business with any comfort to the tedium and weariness of a fatiguing himself. walk? These are little things but life is

The other reason Is, that retiring from made up of little things. It is a pleas* business lets loose a very disagreeable ant thing to have "troops of friends." person upon society. If a man has a They make life a happy thing. They dlagreeable trait in him it will be sure minister to our pleasure and profit in a to come out In its worst form if he has thousand ways. There oome times when nothing in particular to do. In fact," T. you need them, times when to.be wlth-

has seen so many excellent men made out their kind deeds and aympathetio detestable by giving up business that he words, Is to be lonely and desolate Inbelieves that bad traits of oharaoter are deed. They are easily had. A little effort snob as we have indloated, systematically pursued until it beoomes a second nature, will win friends to you in troops.

actually bred in a man out of employ ment just as cheese breeds maggots. T. T. has known a few easy going men, who never had much push about them, to retire from business and still remain very decent men. But he never knew an active, pushing, enterprising man to get out of business that didn't make his home, his neighborhood, his church—if in one—his political party, his community, too hot for any sort of comfort. T. T. had one very pleasant friend who tried this experiment. He was noted for the joy whioh he always brought into the family oircle, and for the pleasure which he diffused everywhere. After retirement he became peevish, meddlesome, and so disagreeable generally, that bis wife and daughters, at the end of one year, of discomfort, declared that if he did not go into business sgain they would, for as for staying at home with bim, it was utterly impossible. He went into business and at onoe became the most tender and considerate of husbands and fathers agsin, and the pleasantest of neighbors. For a man with any enthusiasm and energy in his nature, the only possible way to live with any real enjoyment to himself, or to be a source of comfort to others, is to keep in the harness. As age comes on, and neoessary wants are provided for, it will do to take rest oftener and longer, but it will not do to put the harness off. If business men and busy men would live happily and die as late as possible, they must make up their minds to die in the harness. .,

We are now in the midst of the loveliest season of the year. Already the folisge Is potting on its robe of changing hues, whose colors will deepen with the coming frosts. As I walked down the street this morning the trees on either side snd in the yards presented a beautiful picture. Some of the more tender varieties have already turned yellow, russet and red, snd these brighter hues, set sgainst a background of dark green, afford a contrast that is very pleaaing to the eye. The leaves have commenced falling, and under some trees the ground was fairly strewn with them. All covered with the freshness of the morning dew, and lighted up by the spftened rays of an October sun, rising In cloudless majesty, the soene was one of real beauty. Adding to its charms were the variously colored bouses, with smoking chimneys, which rose fTom amidst the trees on either side. Yet, beautiful as these scenes are, few people observe them. Men harry to their places of business with their eyes fixed upon the ground or upon eaoh other, and the panorama of sky and landsospe passes by unnoticed. Now and then they cross the ooean to gase upon the charms of foreign landscapes, oblivious of the foot that they have left soenes as beautiful at home.

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Dr. Beard, of New York, writing of the effects of a too sudden retirement from active business, says that many of severe and prolonged mental depression have come under bis observation which have resulted mainly or solely from this cause. One case was that of a merchant who had amassed a fortune at a comparatively early age and retired to enjoy the fruits of his labor. He passed his time in reading, travel and social life and entertained himself as well as be oould. After he bad lived in this fashion for some years, bis uervous system was in such a depressed state that he declared he envied the laborer with bis shovel would exchange places with bim. He had lost the enthusiasm of life and everything ceased to interest him. Another gave up his business, bought a place in the oountrv and endured his sufferings for a year, when his afflictions drove him back -to business again. The reason of the dissatisfaction with retirement is that the brain which has been used to daily and regular activity, is deprived of its oustomary stimulus. While engaged in the whirl of practical affairs only the faculties of the mind necessary for acquiring money were exercised, and when the business of money getting ceased, the interest in life ceased. These facts illustrate and enforoe the idea which has before been advanced In these columns, namely, that all the faculties of the mind ought to be cultivated to some extent, that there msy be a harmonious development. Itlstroe that concentration is necessary to business success but it is not true that concentration must be such as to rob the mind of all Its faculties save the few that are in constant use. Every business or professional man can have some time for literary or other culture, If only he will take it and if, by doing so, he does not make money quite so fast as he otherwise would, he will be doing what is vsstly better and be will be laying up a treasure for old age thst will bring him more happiness than all the gold he can heap together. A time will oome, sooner or later, when it will be advisable for him to turn over his business to yoonger heads and hands, and then It will be that he will feel the need of something to fill the vacant pteoe In his mind. Books and Mends will do it if they have been cultivated through life but not, if they have beenhabltoally neglected. m'Skwi

A Woman's Thoughts,

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I pay my regards to tile lady who was sooompllmentary in last week's Gazette, The "drummers" ought to feel very grateful for her graoeful and generous

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nothing to educate the eye to the enjoy- champions. I am acquainted with the ment of the loveliness which nature particular one whom she praises so highoonstantly spreads out sll around as, ly and I am willing to concede that while a vast amount of refined pleasure every word she says Is true, bat I mast insist that this man is an exception to 1 the general class of commercial agenta.

It will pay every young perwntb ra physicians 'quacks' because there are member that It costs bot little to make quacks In the medical profession, or friends. A sociable, sunny disposition, whether all lawyers are corrupt and dl»a willingness to confer small fevors, a honest because of the unscrupulous pleasant, obliging manner, these are the practioes of a few," la hardly pertinent, qualities that make men and women for this reason, that "quacka" do not popular in the community where tbey

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live. Everybody Is glad to see them, to shysters," among the lawyers, but an talk with them, to be in their company, in the minority and are mors heartily There Is Ufa and sunshine in their pree- despised by the member* of their own enee. The atmosphere that surrounds profession than they possibly oould be them Is stimulating. It driven away the bjr anybody else. It would be impoaolblues, It lifts the drooping bead. How ble to make a statement broad enoagh In different Is the case with tboee who go regard to any class of Individuals bat about moody and taciturn, absorbed, somebody oould exclaim, "Oh, I know apparently, In a reverie so deep that one an exception, to whom what yon say hesitates to speak and break the spell! does not apply at all." In rilemming One rather shies from such persons, goes men and women we mast regard them to the other side of the street as if called a class, and notice the peculiarities on important hnstnsss There Is too incident to them taken collectively, much ot the latter quality In American even though by so doing we may be unsocial life a heaviness, a moodiness, a just to a particular few. I see no reason disinclination to be free and esay. It to retro* what I ssld respecting "drumwill pay to cultlvste a genial disposition men." Taking it as a regular trade or «ven at the cost of some effort. There Is profession, it Is not one for which .mothno need to walk down the street for half eta would be anxious to educate their

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sons, and opon Inquiry It will be found that most of the moral and upright men, snob as described Inlaat week's Qasette, who are engaged in this business, were driven into It by force of circumstances snd would be very glad to abandon It If they oould get some other situstlon equally profitable.

I did not Intend to reflect upon the drummers' honesty or capability, but only upon tbelr moral character. Let thla lady, who has ao nobly defended her hus—There! I almost told it—let her ask this drummer wbem she so ably champions, what his honest opinion Is of the traveling men he meets. Let anybody ask the landlords of the hotels where they stop let them inquire of the conductors of the trains upon which they travel let them question their male acquaintances, and the universal anawer will be, that where women are concerned the drummer Is literally without a conscience, unscrupulous and unprincipled. It Is their boaat that tbey have a girl in every town." I number more than one traveling man among my acquaintances, and I have heard them tell bow tbey were obliged to be at certain places on yrtain days in every month because "their girl would be expecting them." These men were handsome as Apollo, and very fasclnsting to young girls but that Is not the worst of it. Every one of these men has a pure and lovely wife I

After listening to one of these individuals expiate on his remarkable successes among women till I could stsnd it no longer I exclaimed in a burst of indignation, "But does your wife never hear of these flirtations?" "Oh, yes," was the noncbalent reply, "but I tell her there is not a word of truth in it that drummers are the worst lied-on class of men in the world, and that I never speak to a woman from the time I leave home till I return again, and she believes it." Then he continued, with a laugh, "Well, I must be going. I have an engagement to play euohre with a lady this evening."

Meeting a drummer on the train not loag since, I fell Into conversation with bim. (He married a schoolmate of mine, gentle reader, and I have known him for years.) With a winning frankness he said, "I have flirted ever since I wat married, and I always expect to flirt and yet I have a good wife and I love her dearly." "Very peculiar way you have of showing it," said I. "Well, what is a fellow todo?"wss the reply. "I am very fond of ladles' society, snd I am away from home all the time." "Of course you do just right," said I, "and as I remember your wife, she used to be very fond of gentlemen's society. I suppose you gram, the same privileges you take." He blushed, (a drummer blushed!) and replied, "Ahem! well, the fact is, you see—my wife lias entirely lost her taste for the gentlemen." I might relate dozens of just such instances but I think scarcely anybody will deny the poeltlon I take in regard to the universal habit drummers have of flirting. But this Is only the harmless side of the question. There are other sins whioh I cannot discuss for which the drummer will have to' answer. I have certain knowledge of several young girls In this town who have been led astray by these men, snd the matter has been hashed op by their families, who felt that they had everything to gain by keeping sllenoe and the drummer had nothing to lose should they give publicity to the affair, short time ago one of the first young ladles In this city indulged in a little harmless and amusing flirtation with one of theee Individuals and a short,time afterward, passed the Terre Hsute "gpuse where he was lounging under the awning. In spite of herself she gave him a glance of recognition. After she passed one of the strangers sitting there Inquired her name. "It is Miss ," said one of our citizens, "a very fine young lady." "Ah 1" said our drummer, "I bad a little episode with her last night, and from her aotlons I judged she was of a very loose character."

Taking thla statement In connection with her evident recognition of the speaker what oonclaslon would the strangers ssated around naturally draw?

I have not so poor an opinion of the sterner ssx ss to think that tbey only need an opportunity to develop their immorality, because I know the opportunity Is always at hand, and yet many men remain pare sad good throughout their lives, bat I do believe thst the opportunities men have do much toward forming their characters, and I think traveling men have many more temptations than thoss engaged in other oocupationa. In the first plaoe tbey are separated continually from the refining i»fiuenoeaof home. When a man rscsives eaoh morning a loving good-by kiss from his wife, and a soft, clinging caress from his children, and when he knows that the cheerful fire, the Inviting supper and tender greeting await his return in the evening, does any one presume to say this man will be ss apt to go astray the one who is callsd np by the porter in the gray dawn of morning, waited upon by sleepy servants and hurried off to the train in a rattling omnibus who spends the day going from place to

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place, often meeting with rebuffs, and who can expect no welcome at night but a lonely room in a hotel? He naturally seeks excitement, pleasure, novelty, wherever snd In whatever shape he oan find it. Then again the man who is engaged in business at home hss his reputation to establish and maintain. He must win the confidence of his associates, not only ss a man of business capacity but also as a man of character and morality. If basins the probability is it will beoome known among his friends and finally oome to the ears of his family.

The traveling man has not this restraint. He is expeoted to know all the questionable stories In circulation, to be posted in all the latest jokes and slang phrases and to have sufficient assursnoe to overcome any emergency that /nay arise. If he succeeds in obtaining large orders his employers will not inquire closely into his moral character. As he Is so slightly known In all the different cities he visits, his peocadillos attract very little attention and it is not probe ble they will ever travel so far ss to reach bis family. If tbey do he can easily contradict them.

Thus it will be seen that traveling men are exposed to every temptation 8nd those who do retain an unsullied reputation deserve much more credit than do the ninety and nine men who had not their opportunities, but I regret to say such is the frailty of human nature that very few are able to withstand the ordeal, and hence it is that the class of men known as "drummers" have established ateputatlon by no means enviable therefore I advise all girls to let them severely alone unless they oome highly recommended by responsible parties.

And now I ask the Indulgence of the public forgiving it two articles upon the same subject. I endeavor not to take a position unless I aVn strongly fortified, and having onoe taken it 1 do not like to be forced to abandon!^.., {ixj £vyd

^People and Things.

IWr nien si* Castleton, Vt., have bad twenty wives. Mrs.Jenks's husband Is an office seeker in Washington.

Dennis Kearney Is sHenjfc.., ,He,jnay go abroad for his throat. d-mm A fortune awaits the man who will Invent an Illuminated keyhole.

It would have been money In Mr. Tllden's pocket if lp had never learned to cipher.

If you don't want to be robbed of your good name, do not have jit printed on your umbrella.

Somebody wrote to Hamilton Fish to get his terms for a lecture, and he replied, "0.0.D. Fish."

Gen. Butler will have ex^ty attaVnek' hie three-soore years on the fifth of next November, eleotlon day.

A child thus defines gossip: "It's when nobody don't do nothing, and somebody goes and tells It." ~'L

A Maine murderer Is described by a hard money paper as a fellow of very truculent aspect, and a "Greenbacker In his political opinions."

The man who stole oora from a blind pig has been surpassed in meanness. Recently a fellow in Chicago sold his wife's corpse to a doctor for f5 .j "Dere vss only a leedle difference between us," said a burly Teuton who had just horsewhipped another. "I vas oxhided und he vas cow-hided—dot's all."

If Joseph Oook makes a hit with his lecture on the "Inner life of a Newspaper," we intend to deliver one on "How to Run a Church."—Boston Traveler.

Tick, or credit, is as old ss the seventeenth oentury, and is oorrupted from tioket, as a tradesman's bill waa formerly called. The phrase was originally "on tioket." "Consistency Is a Jewel," but Bow many people there are who are not at all anxloas to beoome jeweleia. As it Is there Is a great deal of very ebeep jew* elrycurrent.

President Hayes Is to pay a short visit to Wsshlngton. It Is also thought that some of the cabinet can be Induoed to be present. A big time Is expected.— Detroit Free Press.

Wife beating Is increasing instead of diminishing in this country. It Is not Americana who do It, however. The wife maulers are almost without exception of foreign birth.

Potter, the man who has been wheeling a barrow across the oontlosat, has reached California. He hss deadheaded at saloons and hotels on the way, has traveled leisurely, and Is satisfied with the enterprles tyt he says It was along time between drinks in the mountain region.

Mrs. Ida Greeley Smith, the late Honne Gxeeley, has son. The boy Is to be called Horace Gxeeley, jr. If, when be Is (rid enough to know what he wants, he cbooees to add Smith—his tether's name—to It, no one will offer any objections. But It Is not to be forced on him against his will.

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go Into bankruptcy and fix op to liweomfortable the balance of his days, bat they must harrow up his feelings by telling him what he owes them, and' trying to prevent their discharge^— Breakfast Table.

Ta Image Is a good natured individual and amusing oompanion. He is blatant through principle and groteeque by role., If you will oloeely attend one of his sermons, you will see that it is formulated, and grave and gay, harsh and1 soft, by turns, as though carefully constructed In advanoe, as a down's suit is* made.—A New York Reporter.

Mr. Beecber prefeoed hie first lecture la San Franeisoo with a tribute to California. Before the audience oould applaud, a small and apparently self communing voice In the gallery said "Tally!" The crowded house roared,, and with just the faintest twinkle of theleft eyelid, the great preacher coughed*. and went on with the main subject.

Feminitems.

A womsn would sooner rule a beerfe than fill It not so a man. Friendship between women is onljt m. suspension of hostilities.

A woman need not always recall her age, but she should never forget ItIt tskes as much wit not to

Ladies are slowly beooming coosoibt#' that cutaway jackets and waistcoat is not at all becoming to slender figures.

Up In Muskegon, Mloh., Mrs. Meade's* back hair saved her life. Her husband shot at her, and the bullet lodged lo her

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who insulted her. She whale him next time.

A Washington lady who sent one of her husband's ooats to the yellow fever sufferers, pinned a note to the collar requesting that lf It didnt fit It ehouldn't be sent back.—Washtngton'l\)st.v.,

No matter how thoroughly you clean the house, the wife of the next man who moves in will deolare It is not fit for hogs to live In, and will slop suds around over everything trying to make it fit for hogs to live in.—Rome Sentinel.

Mrs. De Gross and heir ton year old daughter made up their minds to drown themeelves in the river st Alton, 111. They waded into the stream, and the mother obligingly aided the ohlld by holding her head under water bat her oourage failed when her own time came io die, and she got ashore,

A Georgia former bought a grand piano for his daughter. His house is small, and, to economies room, the lower part of the partitiop between the kitchen and parlor wss cut out, and the Jong end of the piano .stuok through. Prlsdlla now sits at the key-board, ringing "Who will care for mother now?" and the mother rolls out doughnuts on the other end of the piano in the kitchen.

The husband who thinks himself of any Importance while thoee lovely autumn leaves are hanging atound may as well kesp on thinking so. Woman alone has a true sense of the beautiful, Mid when engaged in arranging those glorious tints, what man with a soul in him woold wish to disturb her dreamings, by hinting that his socks wanted darning, or that he hadn't had a square msal in a week I

The jealous wife of a Cincinnati shoemaker admitted that It wss necessary for him to pat on women the new shoes that they bought, bat she objected to his performing that service In the esse of old and consequently easy shoes. A young woman went into his shop to have her shoe mended while she waited. Wbeo it was finished she placed her foot in his lap to have it put on and buttoned. While he wss absorbed In this his wife came to the door, and the soene aroused her jealousy. She went out and got a clothesline, doubled it to convenient length, came bade, and remarking that die had been married to him fifteen yean, and he had never offered to put on her shoes, she gave him a lashing with the rope in the presence

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a woman ss It takes to plesse her. t1 Msy Wstterson of Jasper, OMoy folL dead when told of her lover's death.

Heaven gave women tongue* te askquestions with and eyes to give answers' 'f!V with.~.r-r^s*

Miss Kate Sanborn, of Boston, gives* morning lectures. She woold gfve evening leotures, but she isn't married.

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Mrs. Amelia Bloomer, the Inventor of the dress that bears her name, 1» living' In a small town In Iowa. She fe disgusted with the turn the women, saffrage movement has taken.

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