Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 9, Number 20, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 November 1878 — Page 1

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

SECOND EDITION.

Town-Talk.

TOO SMART.

Sea I, "Fair youth, do you know what Fd do with you if yoa was my sua "No," sez he. "Wall," sez I, "I'd applntyonr funeral tomorrow artertaoon and the korps should be ready. You're teo smart to live on this yearth."

So spake Artemus Ward to the smart young fellow who was poking fun at him at the opera, and it was probably a great misfortune that he was not the father of that fellow and a good many others of the same sort. And it is a great pity that the American people cannot see their way clear to appoint the funeral of some of their smart men, and to make arrangements that the services be not prevented by the failure of the corpse to be ready. Of course T. T. is speaking figuratively. He does not recommend the "shotgun policy" for smart men, nor yet "cold jpisen." But they ought to bo made to "take a back seat," "to atep down and out," "to vamoose," to gut out of the way as really as if they wer« dead and buried. The smart man is the pest of American society, and instead of exterminating him, this pest becomes the pet. Smartness is the one virtue that bides a multitude of sins from the eyes of the American people. If a man is smart they will toler*ate almost any lack of principle and wink at almost any crime. Stupidity is the unpardonable sin, and smartness is the sum of all virtue. And this smartness, which is so much admired, and praised, is not simple quickness of intellect, but it is skill in trickery, a shrewdness that hesitates at no means to secure Its ends. It is in no way inconsistent with dishonesty or untruthful ness. In fact it generally takes no account of honesty, honor or truth, but only uses these when tbey will better serve its purpose than their opposite vices. It is trickery, pure and simple.

The fellow who buys goods and gives a counterfeit bill in payment aud walks off with the goods and the change is an ordinary fellow who deserves imprisonment if he is caught. There is no smartness to atone for thatvcrime. But a fellow comes into the store apparently drunk, and leaning on the show case, breaks the glass, and in response to the "jawing'' of the owner, declares that he has money enough to pay for it, and bids the irate shopkeeper to help himself said shopkeeper opens the pocketbook and finds a fifty dollar bill, and out of this takes a good round «ium, say five dollars, and gives the fellow back his pocket book and forty-five dollars, and bldajhim begone. He obeys, staggers out and around the corner, and immediately fcobers off and runs. The bill 1» counterfeit. That fellow was smart, and If it were put to vote' whether he Is entitled to the forty-five dollars, \bere wouldn't be votes enough in the negative, beside that of the shopkeer, to prevent a unanimous decision, lie deserves it for his smartness. And so it rans all through American society. In news paperdom the man—or woman—who can put together a lot of sharp sentences, true or false, is smart, a smart writer whose falsehoods and bad influence are pardoned because of the smartness. T. T. has seen a lawyer marching up and down the court room, conscious-that he is "cock of the roost," and admired aa a great lawyer, and his greatness consisted simply in the fact that he was smart. He would boldly resort to tricks which his more scrupulous competitors would not dare to attempt, and.toften won where they failed. His companions at the bar, and the community, know that he was perfectly unscrupulous, and yet all admired and petted him because be was smart. But politics Is the favorite field of the smart man. Ben Butler, who frightened the Yankee* In Massachusetts half out of their wlta the other day, Is chletfof the tribe of smart politicians. Everybody know* that he la a demagogue, that he baa been on all

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him more votes than anything else, and making all allowance for the natural will do again, if he Is a candidate for the tendencies of obildreu, there Is no doubt presidency in 1880. And ao it goes in many might be reclaimed to Uvea of politics often. The honest, sensible, houar and happiness bad they been surhard working aud patriotic man, though rounded by the right kind of heme InIt is possible that he may win in the fluenoe, and in this connection it might long run, baa a'bard fight when he ought be appropriate to ask: to be able to walk over the course, aud WHAT HHAIX BH DONE WITH THB PAR-

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icy." Still it does hold true that failure doee not oome to dishonesty and trickery as soon as It ought, pr as soon as it would, if it were not for this unthinking and dangerous admiration of "smartness. If one Is not truthful, if one is ness.

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fact that be is smart ought to count against him, aDd not in his favor, for it makes him all the more dangerous. When T. T. hears the declaration, "He is smart," he asks, audibly, or in his sleeves, Is he honest, truthful and hon orable better.

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Bro. Henderson and T. T. criticised her leoted, for nobody but mother be article bec.u» It waa written by a »er watchful, even through the atlll woman, T,T is to disturb her, but he must repel the charge of such uugal-

lantry. Bro. Henderson is married aud can stand the charge, but T. still languishes in single blessedness. T. T. criticised her article because of its serious mistakes, and tried to do it as becometh a bachelor when dealing with a maiden or a madame.

A Woman's Opinions.

BY A NEW CONTRIBUTOR.

WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH OUR BOYS Seems to be agitating tbe public mind now-a-days and everybody has something to say on the subject. This has always been a matter of grave importance since tbe day when Adam said to Eve: "What is to be done with our boys?" and she replied, "I guess you'd better put them to work on the farm," but the question is gradually changing shape and resolving itself into "What shall be done with our children?" There was a day when a girl's sole destination was marriage, and the problem was easily solved in regard to her. It was the mother's duty to prepare her for matrimony, marry her off as soon as possible, and shift all further responsibility on the shoulders of the unlucky husband. This is too much the case even now, but there seems to be the dawning of a day when it will be considered essential to educate our girls equally as well as our boys, and to prepare tbem also to accept their share of life's allotted responsibilities, and perform them in an acceptable manner. Parents are gradually realizing that there may be a future for their daughters which is not inevitably linked with that of some other man's son that she may create a name and a fame for herself that she may make a path of her own, and not be, compelled to tread in the footprints of another. frf

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Conscious of this possibility, and aware also of the fact that the girl babies persist in making their appearance more frequently than tbe boy babies, and that somewhere in the future there is going to be a scarcity of husbands, fathers and mother's are beginning to cry, not "What shall we do with our boys?" but, "What shall we do with our children?"

feet press the tiny band when a faint moan tells of disturbing dreams to spring up at the first hoarse cough or scarlet flush which betokens a fever. Money cannot buy the tender care which every baby has aright to demand, and yet all this has been done repeatedly here in our own city. W*hen a mother, whose life has been one long sacrifice, ventures to remonstrate, the answer will be,—"Oh! I love my children just as well as you do." How improbable! There are gradations of affection just as there are of hate, of fear, of ail passions, and love, like religion, is made manifest by its works. But the mother who neglects her baby is less culpable than the one who is remiss toward the growing child. How many women will slander their neighbors' unmindful of the little ears that are drinking it all and, when these same abused individuals happen in, meet them with a smile and a caress, thus giving to the child its first lesson in deceit. How many habitually exaggerate and prevaricate in their common conversation forming'a habit in the child which will be termed lying.

How many devote so much time and attention to fashion and style that their children grow up vain and frivolous, with all the noble qualities of their young hearts lying dormant, awaiting the touch of an awakening band, a magic hand which God intended should be the mother's.

What shall be said io' those fathers who use profane language in the presence of their children

What to these who kiss the pure lips of their little ones, breathing upon tbem the odors of intoxicating liquors? Can a father teach his son habits of cleanliness while his own mouth is full of tobacco? Can he teach him economy when he himself has just left the billiard table and ba« his pocket full of choice cigars? Can he point out to him effectually the

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of gambling, when tbe boy knpws that his father' still frequents tbe card table Will it avail anything to teach children to control their temper, when the.father gives way to uncontrollable anger or to be just, unless they see justice praoticed at home

Tbe instincts and observation of children are keen and unerring. Precept, with tbem, Js unavailing unless it go band in hand with example. What you

ren married women, and If any poor teach is not so important as what you mother, harassed and perplexed with do. "My father gets drunk," said a llther ever increasing brood, wants advice tie six-year-old boy, a short time ago, as to the best method of managing her "My father la a gentleman, and I'm go relractory offspring, she can get more of lng to be just like him when I grow up." it than she wants by applylog to the No doubt be will. A lecture on temperabove mentioned individuals. Men and ance from such |,la^|j ^uld ^yaU but women who have reached years of ma- little. tuiity, and find themselves ©hlldleas are Parents, when you see bad habits always Indisputable authority on every- growing upon your children, pause bethlng that pertains to the bringing up of fore you administer rebuke or punish children but abould tbey suddenly find ment, and consider whether you are en themselves invested with the responst- tlrely free from similar faults. You are blttty they would be like Miss Ophelia, highly complimented to be told that in Uncle Tom's Cabin, who kuew pre* your children resemble you in form and dsely bow "niggers" ought to be man- feature.

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aged, till she had one to manage, and to know they were your counterpart In then ascertained that ahe didn't know manners and morals? "What shall we anything about it. do with our boys and girla?" Give tbem

Witneas tbe diacuseion at the Hortieul- parent® whose lives are blameless as we tural Society, last Saturday, when eight would wish our children's to be, and perrons took pats in It who had never hopefully await the ftiture. had any boys, and half of the number

had no children of any kind. It-is im« A full set of The Mail—thirteen possible to lay down fixed rules for the numbers—containing the aerial story of bringing up of children that will apply the "Haunted Hotel," mow than twenty in all cases. Some seem naturally ao abort storiee, and an Immense quantity good that th»y oome op without causing of miscellaneous reading, current news, any trouble or anxiety, and axe always local history, and useful information, a pride »nd pleasure to their parents will be sent, postage paid, to any adwhile others seem to be born wayward dreaa for twenty-five cent?. and willful, and In spite of the" prayers and entreatiea, and thoughtfulneta and NUMBERS of people now dally best endeivors of the con" Mentions over the Danville and Evansville roadA, father and mother, :i^ bring only sor- through this city, returning from the row and disgrace to the household yet North to their homes in the South. iTv -V

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Dreamtug the scholar sat at easement lone, With that of day hlssptrlt'a son hath flown, His life work naught, tbe veriest dross its gold. Whose pages so prised before hitn rolled. When slow descending from the starry skies A survey soroli floats neatb his startled eye» .. n«.Ut WA «AAj)a ihuMAlt

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"Through toll and suffering, Is flames sumhe wildly "Welcome the thorny path, cried, God, Trutn, whate'er thou art, no longer hide Thy face pierce, slay, Almighty Power, But Nature's veil uplift for one brief hour! As though bin burning words had power to draw flplrlt from space a phantom form he saw. "Unwise as bold, rash mortal, who wouldst

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Wlthslghtunsanctifled by life's mystery! Learn that to soui unpurified by love, Deat h's icy hand alone the veil will move. Vain visions all, with biasing eyes that turned To flames tho traced thoughts he fiercely

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With anguish dumb the stricken scholar

Withe's fair work his] life seemed torn away, 11 a gentle touch on his pale brow, his form an angel face bent tow,

When fell Whlleo'er ...» A woman's soul laet his through tender

And new life wakened, with rare surprise The hot blood flushed to life and cheek and brow* "Ah, Love! sweet Love! the glorleus key art thou." To Nature's shrine, sole altar where to how, Thy wa ers only can the heart's thirst slake. Thy bread of life, Earth, Heaven!* true portal make,

THE BETTER WORLD.

CHURCHES, PASTORS AND PEOPLE.

Prayer "and praise meeting at Y. M. C. A. rooms to-morrow afternoon at 4:15. At the First Presbyterian church, Alex. Sterrett, pastor, worship as usual at 11 a. m. Sunday school at 2:30 p. m.

At the First Congregational Church. Services to-morrow at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Preaching by Rev. T. R. Bacon.

Rev. C. R. Henderson's themes, at the Baptist church, to-morrow, will be "Wisdom tried by popular suffrage," and "Good works good for something."

Services at the usual hours to-morrow at the Christian Chapel, by G. P. Peale, pastor, whoso morning subject is: "Christ's treatment of Zaccbeus." Evening subject: "The kind of christians, this age demands."

St. Stephen's Church. Services. as follows: Morning Prayer at 10% a. m. Litany, Celebration of the Holy Communion 11 a. m. Evening Prayer and Sermon, VA p. m. Wednesday, Z\$ p. m. Friday, and holy days at 1034 a. m.

Evening services at VA p. ni. Sunday evening. At that service the Rev. E. A. Bradley, of Christ Church, Indianapolis, will deliver an address before the Woman's Missionary Society of St. Stephens

Rev. Dr. Tiffany, of New York has banished Sankey's music from his church.. "T*, "Moderate pew rents and music of the higbest order" are the principal advertised attractions of thd new up-town Protestant Episcopal parish the Church of tbe Holy Spirit in New York I

The Atlanta Presbyterian who gave a little dance at his house in honor of the arrival of a sister and was disciplined by tbe church session, appealed successfuly to the presbytery. Now the session appeals to the general assembly, and there's iroing to be an awful time of it.

A dissatisfied church memoer in Arkansas recently walked out tithe center of tbe aisle and Ared four or five shots from' a revolver at the minister. He didn't hit the parson, however. This is not exactly the right or best way to settle church difficulties. It is open to objection.

Children sometimes preach effective sermons without knowing it. Little Freddie waa talking to his grandma, who was something of a skeptic: "Grandma, do you belong to the Presbyterian Church "No." To the Baptist?"''No." "To any Church?" "No." "Well, grandma, don't you think it's about time to get in somewhere There are a great many people to whom the same question might be put.

A new society styling itaelf "The Friends of Holiness," in New York had a oonveation for devotional and business purposes, at which the president Introduced a resolution to the effect that it was not right to encourage any person in the belief oT a hope in Heaven who lived a covetous, worldly, unforgiving life. This resolution looked too restrictive and exclusive to suit tbe notions of the majority of the assembly, aud they tabled it on tbe ground that it would place the, convention in a bad position and set tbe world against it. The society is not yet atrong enough to make such a declaration of principles and take such a position against the common instincts of humanity—covetousnasa, worldliness and stiff neckedness ao the Friends of Holiness made a politic compromise with man aa tbey And him, and sustained the Deity aa His nature and disposition are revealed. Such a corner on Heaven as the resolution contemplated would have been supremely ridiculous.

An old woman in North Carolina feinted at the right of a railway trair the first she had ever aeen.

People and Things.

Grave robbing is one way indeed to raise the "dost." Tbe Rochester Express says tbe lawyers in tbe Vanderbilt will case are having their sons edeated to succeed them in the ease. "The brain pan will always beat the muscle in the struggle." Tupper intended to say this, but Pitkin, of Louisiana, is in ahead with it.

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Mr. Beecber visited Barn urn's a few nights since, and chance and the usher piloted him to a seat exactly in front of Mr. Tllton. Mr. Tilton got up and moved to another part of the house.

A North Carolina paper says of an official: "His mule threw him some distance, and but for a rotten saddle girth would have caused a vacancy in the office he now so acceptably fills."

Secretary Gurham, of the Republican Congresgional Committee, when asked for funds for Maryland, is said to have replied that the "committee has no money to keep old graveyards in repair."

P. T. Barnum, member-elect of the Connecticut Legislature, said upon being serenaded Tuesday nigbt, "As a showman, I am glad to remark that the1 Democracy bad a mighty poor

Connecticut. A father and his son were simultaneously 'married to a mother and her daughter, in Maysville, Ind. The younger couple bad been courting for a long time, but the parents, SI and 80, went into wedlock on a sudden impulse.

When a man is hanging by his toes from tbe cornice of a high building, and expects momentarily to drop, nothing so completely reassures and so thoroughly satisfies him as the suddeu discovery that he is safely home in bed.—Rome Sentinel. "Show me the fashion plates of any age," said Talmage, "and I will tell you the type of morals or immorals of that age or that year." All right, Brother Talmage, we suggest the age of Adam and Eve. We haven't the plates handy, but doubtless you recollect them.— Boston Post.

A singular development transpired a) Fort Lincoln on the Slst of October. Mrs. Sergeant Noonan, who died the previous night, turns out to have been a man. "Mrs." Noonan wasalaundress at the post, and a most popular midwife. "She" had been married three times, and was one of tbe widows of the Custer massacre. "Her" husband is a member of the Seventh cavalry, now in the field. There is no explanation of the unnatural union, except that the supposed Mexican woman was worth |10,000, and was able to buy "her" husband's silence, "She" has been with the Seventh cavalry nine years.", "af

A pork packing establishment at Chicago contains a large dining room, well warmed and suitably furnished, where tbe workmen assemble at noon and eat tbe dinners they have brought from their homes. Sometimes speakers are invited by the employers to address the employes, and the other day three temperance speeches were made within the hour. The pork houses and railroads at Chicago look with disfavor upon saloons, nd there are very few placee in the vicinity of the shops and houses for the workmen to go to and squander their earnings.

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™is**6£54lii A Kentucky woman has married a Mr. Calico—has wedded a prints, as it were.

The New York'Mail sHya' that four brides at a hotel table will waste more food than would make a dinner for four average families. •.

A Detroit woman observes that if she was Bob Ingersoll's wife she'd make him believe there was a hell, or snatch him bald beaded.

It is not at all extraordinary that tbe wardrobe of a fashionable lady should impoverish her husband, since it even beggars description.

A celebrated surgeon in Landon out out a woman's tongue,which was tbe seat of a canoer, and he averred that she continued to chatter with her teeth.

A respectable lady in I^wiston, Me haa become a kleptomaniac, and her friends have published a notice requesting merchants to watch her, and should she take anything, make no scandal, but send the bill to them.

It ia not the servant girl who under arrest in Allentown, Pa., for opening her miatreas' letters, but exactly the reverse. The servant girl rerelvei letters from her lover, and tbe miatreas yielded to curiosity tod read them*

It te no Indication that a lady la well dressed because her clothing is expan aire. There are ladies whoee garments cost thousands of dollar* every year, and yet they are never a6 becomingly dressed a^many ladies who never wear expensive* toilets, but show superior taste in selecting appropria'3 costumes.

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Gray squirrel and cony sets are still' much used for children. Scarfii made of tbe long hair of the black monkey are atylish and very tpensive.

Sealskin hats in the Gainsborough style, turned up on one side, will bek very popular.

For children the favorite' styles will be plaids in the real Scotch plaidsr these will be diamond shaped.

A novelty in furs is the peterine, a pointed cape or collar oovering the neck and shoulders it is made of chinchilla, beaver or coon skin* -it i*

The elegant sealskin hats fbr ladies are turned up on the sides like the English walking bats, and are trimmed with seal brown satin and clusters of feathers.

A large cartoon in Paris paper represents a tall footman carrying bis mis-''-4 tress, who Is unable to walk on account'^ in her dress. "The fashion of the sbeath dresses ends by tbe ladies put intoswaddling clothes a fSB V-.

Knitted goods run iu a very handsome variety this season. For small children tbe woolen sacques come in dark colors, with a shaded border the chief sbadear being dark brown, with a border shaded from light ecru to sienna brown, and ruby red shaded to brown. ^Vr

In fancy work revolution, has been doing its work, and now in place ofUv cross stich Berlin embroidery on canvas,' there are different styles on silk, velvet, satin, and even ordinary woolen fabrics, ii Set patterns, filled in with guiding colors are no longer considered any-! thing more than mere mechanical labor, and absolute skill and artistic taste area now being cultivated instead. A well' known writer in fashion suggests that^' many articles for household use and.. adornment, and artistic bits for the wardrobe can be made. A Honiton' collar and pair of cuffs is no trifling addition to a wardrobe, and can be accomplished by acquiring dexterity and a a

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The materials which will be mostly used for oomposite oostumes with Amer-:J lean suits will be the heavy camelTsf haircloth, with hair or fleece cropping &• out on the surfaoe.

Costumes in a Paris are worn much a shorter than In America, and the5' wearers have also a contrivance to'r lpop-,!, ing tbem up in the back and showing a^t few inches of white or fancy petticoat.

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Sealskin sacques will remain the favorite fur cloak. They will be worn Very long and fit close to the figure, butt amply full below the waist for the prevailing style of costume. The shoulder, seams are short and high tbe front i® double breasted and may fold over straight from the tbe throat down or else be turned back, after tbe style of a gentleman's ooat tbe collar is very broad tbe coat sleeves generally without cuffs, while for fastening, passementerie loops with sealskin bars are used at the edges the sealskin is turned up over a cord and faced on the lining this given the edges a neat, rolled ap-, .f pearance. The lining 'preferred is o( quilted brown satin gre^—a tuilled ailku, with aatin lustre that does not easily fray. *r

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A favorite employment amongst faah-"..f•i» ionable ladies is getting to be the knitin of to in A is at lively and well informed goBslp gives,' I the following advice: "What is one to.. do, then, to have something-new anddifferent to the rest of tbe world, batf knit her own stockings? Now don'^„,

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rush off for Angora yarn, or One Btock»ixn*. ing thread, for you'll be just as far ouf of your way. Instead, get silk that. comes by the pound on purpose for, -4 stocking knitting, in any color that may 'T please you, cream, pink, pale or dark blue, ruby, cardinal, brown or gray, anC!. if you have any skill at using pins yoa will have lovely stockings. You ctki knit tbem ribbed, whioh gives a very pretty effect, or if you happen to knowsome nice old lady who la an adept at knitting, get her to teach you tbe lace stitch, and knit tbe front and inatep in open work. Or you may knit tbe plain stitch and embroider the instep la oolora, making an exquiaite pair of stockings. For this you want tbe stocking itself to be cream, black, gray^ or one of tbe very pale shades of pinkor blue, and use the deeper shades for\ the embroidery. Tbe brighter shade* may he used for tbe ribbed or the 5penwork stockings. Isn't tliat getting bacl into old fashion with a vengance Bu there's no employment under tbe sung^m that so soothing as knitting it is genuine antidote for'nerves.' Then, too, tbe results of it are so so satiafactory, when silk is the material used for tbe^^1'* knitting, and there's no question as to^f. durability and they are warm as well—v i'f ladies who have worn them say they*lf are aa warm as merino."

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