Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 9, Number 43, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 April 1879 — Page 1

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLED

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Town-Talk.

HOW TO READ.

T. T. accepts the suggestion made to bim that he give some hints about reading. It is a very appropriate time to do this, when the lifirary question is uader consideration, and when there is such a good prospect of securing one. And there is need of suggestions on this subject. It ia wonderful bow much reading is done and how little good comes from it. People are stuffing their minds with literature and growing lean, or remaining lean all the same as if they did not feed at all. There must be something wrong, else this would not be the case. When a man eats, and eats, and grows pale and thin, it is a sore sign that the food is of the wrong sort, or taken in the wrong way, or that he has a tapeworm or some disease. People read enough to become intelligent, but they do not. Why not? Chiefly because they

READ FOR FUN.

There is very little solid, earnest reading done in Terre Haute, though perhaps as much as elsewhere. People read to pass away time, and so read stories, and often of the flimsiest sort. They gormandizs on newspapers. Tbey want easy reading. When the library oomes, unless there is a very wise committee to select books, there is danger that its shelves will be largely filled with "light literature," and if tbey are not, the shelves which do contain this kind of reading—for there must be some of it—will be the most eagerly sought. T. T. has nothing to say against "light literature." He would by no means banish it. But the one who feeds the TOQind ohiefly on this will improve bis mental health and strength about as Rapidly as one will grow strong and fat E on candy, Ice cream and pie. These do very well for dessert, but are not good for a steady diet. They are pleasant to the taste, but tbey do not make muscle.

T.T. believes in ice cream parlors, candy vtores and pie stands, but does not advise taking board at any of these. It doesn't do to eat just for the fun of eating. And it does not do to readjust for .the fuu of reading. And yet, in the j! long run, the one who reads for profit

Iwill get the most pleasure, just as the 'man who eats a good square meal when hungry, will enjoy it more than any amount of sweet things. A hungry man will give more for a good plate of tpork and bean*, or a sausage, than for all the ice cream and cake to be found at Jac White's and Soudder'a combined.

It is dainty people, and lazy people, who do not work enough to get up an appetite, that must be tempted by nice tldits. People live and thrive and grow ptrong no "the substantial," whether in Bating or reading.

Yes, T. T. could suggest A COURSB OF RAADINQ, at he does not believe that to be the *sst way to do. One of the best courses hat be ever entered upon grew up in lis way. He was reading Younge's Life

Maria Antoinette,—a book as interring aa any novel,—and he determined not to pass over anything till he had ound out all he possibly could about it. Almost every page of the book sent him •$t in search of information of one sort hd another. Here was the name of a person, perhaps barely mentioned. Who as be When did be live, and where? 'hat did he do? All this was to be iunted up, and it was fun to hunt It up. took time, but when the work was 'one there was something to show lor

And very likely in that hunt someiing else came up that must be in ulred into. Then came a historical alusion—perhaps a mention of the Thirty .'ears' War. And that must be studied p. And so ont of this oae book came a jurse of reading embracing biography, gicieot and modern, literature, history svil and ecclesiastical, ancient aad aoclero, Kuropsan and American, And j|, w*% a course that wa« pursued with S o^jjert. If anybody wants a course of fading let him take a«y good book and term'me not to pass over anytb'rt^ ainfcd or suggested tof that book till

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h#« found out all he can about it. And here is where the Library will be of assistance. It will have a large number of Encyclopedias in whloh all these suggestions can be followed out. The best possible Library is one made up largely of Enoyclopediaa.

Besides courses of reading, It is important how one reads. The great difficulty is that not half the good there is in books is gotten out of them. T. T. has just been reading one of George Eliot's novels, and he did it in this way. He read it first with pencil in bend, ss usual. Having in this way gotten the story, and marked striking pessages, he wrote the names of the principal characters on separate sheets of paper, and then ran through the book again, guided chiefly by his pencil marks, and noted against each name the page on whioh there was anything of special interest about that character, and then he studied up each character separately. In this way he got a wonderful amount of enjoyment, and learned the philosophy of the authoress. It is worth more to read one of George Eliot's works in that way than all she ever wrote in the usual slip-shod style. And when one book of a good author has been read in this way it will create an interest in others, and they can be read not only with greater pleasure, but in less time and with greater ease. These are mere suggestions for those who desire to read for profit, and not simply for fun.

A Woman's Opinions,

MONEY VS. MAN.

There has often been a temptation to write a (few words in reference to the salaries that many of the employes in this city are receiving, and the circumstances of the past few weeks have been such as to give a still closer insight of this matter, and the question that continually presents itself is, How do they live? Do they beg, do they borrow, do tbey go in debt, do they steal, or do they have outside assistance? for many of them cannot pay their necessary expenses with the salaries they receive. Numerous examples might be quoted, bat I will give only a few of those which have come under my personal observation. A virtuous, intelligent, prepossessing girl twenty years old went all over this town to obtain a situation as clerk, and the highest salary she was offered was two dollars and fifty cents a week! Think of it! Not enough to buy even the food she would be obliged to eat, and nothing left for the other necessities of life. A competent young man applied for a position and the proprietor said, "I expect my salesmen to dress well, to have their linen done at the laundry, and to make such an appearance as will be a credit to my establishment." "What do you pay "Five dollars a week." Now let us estimate the absolute expenses of such a young man. The poorest board and lodging he could get would cost $3.50 two shirts, three pairs of cuffs and four collars laundried, 55cents underclothing, 25 cents twice a week to the barber's, 20 cents. These are vory low figures, and yet they only leave 50 cents a week for shoe blacking, for having his hair cut and other necessary expenses in order that he may be "a credit to the establishment." Suppose he is sick for one day he has net a cent to pay for physician or medicine, and more than this, h* loses his wages for that day and is obliged to go In debt which he can never be able to liquidate. This it not an exceptional case. There are hundreds of young men In this town to-day working twelve hours out of twenty-four and receiving less than five dollars a week. Some of them are hopelessly in debt and obliged to stoop to the dishonorable method of asking for credit at one place after another till they are repudiated by every tradesman in town. Yet what else can they do? A man getting five dollars a week cannot, even with rigid economy, have one dollar left to buy olothee. He may be so fortunate as to have relatives who will help him along, but even then he must be continually burdened with a sense «f dependence and besides, what a degrading life is that which never permits a man to spsnd a cent for books or any kind of entertainment.

Take another example: A young man worked faithfully for months at |2 a week, hoping that as soon as he mastered the trade he would have his wages raised. Finally he became an experienced baud and wa* anxiously expecting increased compensation, when his wa^es were reduced to $1.75! Think of an employer who would ask a mas to labor hard twelve hours a day for 29 oents! Another man with a liberal education, temperate and industrious, walked the streets for days, hunting work of any kind. He was at last taken into a wealthy firm where for constant and unremitting work all day and often into the night he was given— his board! Where should he sleep It didn't make any difffrer.ee to the firm. How should be buy chr. he That was not t'if ir tu-me-is, win i, 0. 1 1. ,ie SjSace Vr multiply insane ir. in-! 1 I am able toglve all

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persona In this town who oould tell infinitely more about these things than I can.

It la dlsoouragiag to those who want to earn an honeat living. It la enough to make a man wish he were one of the brute creation, provided by nature with a garment, able to sleep without ahelter, and not dependent upon his fellow beings for food or like the the flowers which spring into existence already clothed, drink their nourishment from the heavens above them, and fold up their leaves in slumber at nightfall

It is a burning shame and a disgrace to an employer to make use of the bone and sinew of a laborer for his own profit, and then not furnish him the means to strengthen that body and fit it for further usefulness. It is an outrage upon humaulty that one man should take a meau advantage of another man's necessity because he has the power to do it. If a laborer in any department does a square, honest, faithful day's work, he is entitled to a fair and honorable price for it, and any employer who receives a man's work and then compels him to accept wages upon which he cannot live is a tyrant and a despot. He ought to be ashamed to go to his pwn comfortable home, to sit at his sumptuous table, to ride in his carriage, to look upon his handsomely dressed wife and children, and reflect that the men who help him, day by day, to lay the foundation of his wealth, have not the bare necessities of life. The days of slavery^ have not passed away. The North is not free from that evil which for so many years disgraoed the South. The Southern planter bought the bodies of his slaves, but he took care that these bodies were fed, clothed and housed. The Northern employer exacts the labor from his men, but does not coneern himself about their temporal needs.

If, however, the underpaid employe makes complaint he is told, "This is a free country. You can go if you choose." Go where Does not the laborer know that there are more men than situations, and that if he gives up the scanty wages he is now receiving he must face destitution? "Ah, yes," exclaim the employers, "that is the truth. Why should we pay high wages when we can get men who will do the work for half the money There is no law that can compel you to do it but that of justice and equity. This law, strengthened by the sacred principle of humanity, should move every man to give unto his fellow man a just compensation for his services, such a recompense as will enable him to supply his essential wants and remove any temptation to dishonesty or to insurrection. Tf a man feels that he is reasonably and sufficiently, paid for his labor, he will work with a willing and cheerful spirit, and find no room in his heart for eavy, discontent or rebellion.

Considering the injustice that ia practiced towards hundreds of men in the city, who are dependent upon an employer for their daily bread, one feels that they deserve the highest commendation for the silent, patient manner in which they perform their duties, striving to bear up under their adversities, and hoping and praying for a day when they may not have to cry, "O, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap."

BEECHER aud Talmage both delivered theological sermons in Brooklyn last Sunday. Beeoher put up his hands against the old systems of theology because the governments in which they grew, aad of which tbey were a part, were monarchical, tyrannical, and men had moved from under them. They were not adapted to our country, our times or our advanced civilization. As an illustration he remarked: "To say that God piled all the sins of the world onto his own son, and that thoee who committed them should henoeforth not suffer for them—this is heathenism run mad, a folly so profound that a man stands aghast to think of it. He bears our (Jns as a mother bears the sins of her child, that I believe."

Talmage discoursed on his theology, too, and there were no merry rounds of applause sounding through the Tabernacle as formerly. He was apparently subdued—under the shadow of his progressing trial in a uhuroh court. He remarked that while he was lately in St. Loais a man came to him at his hotel and told him that there was no heaven. That was all the stranger bad to say, and he would not argue with bim on the point. For himself he knows there is a heaven, and be described the place to hie connregation as a city with "golden thoroughfares, and walla made up of precious atones." That was the drift of Talmage's expounding of his own theology,

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™w^J!r. Houghoworth, tliiellrgyman whoae elopement with a girl in GiiTord, Iowa, led to her murder by her lover and to the lover's suicide, has retired ftoai the ministry. He preached a farewell sermon, whsea was impaiioaMy listened to by ft rather •':!,? -cmbiy, ani *xprai*d the opinion ais use-IExhibition

People and Things.

The sexton and ushers of Trinity church, New York, wear black gowns. Tennyson received fl,500 for his last poem, or at the rate of twelve dollars a line.

Vanderbilt la going abroad. The Europeans have a notion that he ia the proprietor of this country.

A Hartford religious enthuslsst undertook to faat forty days, and became a maniac at the end of the fifth day.

Anew police regulation In Berlin requires every traveler in company with a lady to show their relations are legal.

If there is anything calculated to deepen gravity upon the human countenance, it is to read through the column in a paper headed ''humorous."—Indianapolis Herald, mrmu!

A schoolmaster spoke oi his pupils as having been so thoroughly disciplined that they were aa quiet and orderly as the chairs themselves. Probably tbey were cane bottomed.

A Chinaman never swears when he gets mad, because there are no "cuss" words in his dictionary. He simply upsets his washtub, butts the bottom out, kicks a dog, and feels better.

Frank Melville, the well known bareback rider, was severely injured in Philadelphia, Saturday, by being thrown from his horse, which took fright and stumbled during a performance,

There is a growing conviction in the minds of smokers that a vest pocket should be made deep enough to entirely hide a cigar from the scrutinizing gaze of the man who never has any.

It is our good nature and not fine furniture that makes home attractive.— New York News. But when all the bed slats fall out of place, and waken you up with a crash about midnight, what becomes of your good nature ?—New Haven Register.

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Coil -Bob Ingersoll presented Joe Jefferson a book the otuer day. On the fly-leaf was the following: "To Joseph Jefferson, king of that enchanted realm where comedy and pathos dwell, where laughter touches tears and sadness blossoms into mirth."

A convict received check for $5 on his discharge from the Wethersfield, Connecticut, State prison, and found it necessary, of course, to be identified to receive its payment, and, thinking the man he had robbed would know him best, called upon him and accomplished his purpose.

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Sam Rineheart, of Sells Brothers' circus, attended a minstrel show in Columbus, Ohio, during the past week. In the middle of the banjo solo, ftineheart arose to leave. The annoyed banjo player on the stage noted this and exclaimed: "Don't go out, Sam, we'll have the whisky brought to you." Sam sat down. 3K?

During a recent trial in New London, a rural juror appealed to the court to know "if the lawyers could not be stopped from bothering the jury." He had become bewildered in the maze of technicalities and subtleties with which the lawyers had apparently mystified the case, aud be cried in anguish of spirit, "Them lawyers come hereon purpose to bother and confuse us jurors, don't tbey, judge?" "I suppose they do, my friend," wearily replied his honor. -*Mj»

Here is a bit of wisdom a man comes in possession of early in life, and then it walks along with bim all the remainder of his days. It keeps company with the poor, and is arm in arm with the rich, though they may not at all times know it. It may seem very commonplaoe. Here it is: "No man can eucoeed in all his undertakings, and it would not be, well for him to do so. Things easily acquired go easily. It is by the struggle it costs to obtain that we learn to rightly o.um.teth.vlu.."

With some people the toady passes for an amiable soul who likee to please, but oould they see him with thoee from whom be can gain nothing, tbey would discover their mistake. How he snubs such people! What bitter things he can say how well he can give the cold shoulder. All the venom which he hides, when it is his interest to do so, he vents upon those who have neither money nor Influence. His very face changes his smiles are gone, he Is cold and snsppisb be scowls and frowns. Reader, don't you recognize him

AMUSEMENTS.

dn'Ihe evening of May 5th Denman Thompson will appear here for the Ant time, as Josh Whitcomb, a personation that has given him a national reputation. He has been playing this week at Cincinnati. The limes of that city says:

Denmau Thompson, in his wonderfully realistic impersonation of Joehua Whitcomb, Is drawing large and constantly Increasing audiences at the Grand Opera House. If Mr. Thompson can play anything else nearly as well as he personates the comical New Hampshire farmsr, be can take rank as one of t- first character actors of the age. His •iuaho* Whitcomb is about as near perfeet]on as the actor's art ever attains.

Go and seethe wonders of the Loan to-night.

Feminitems.

Are shopping ladies liable to beoalled price fighters. Laura Fair is oeming east witha lecture in her pistol pocket.

Emma Abbott sings in a 925,000 necklace and never takes cold. The sainted Eliza Pinks ton is said to be among the Kansas emigrants.

Pretty stockings and low shoeii have become a too apparent fact as apart of young ladies' toilets.

If you cover your faces with veils, you may save your pallid complexion, but you will injure your sight. "tt "Spring divorce suits are cut lower in the neck than usual, with a scandal en train," says the Cincinnati Enquirer. "Who will be queen of the May asks an exchange. We nominate the Widow Oliver.—Philadelphia Chronicle.

The new style spring hats are so tall that they entirely obstruct the view of the sermon on Sunday.—Meriden Beoorder. ,, V,

American Women who are sensible as well as tasteful, avoid English styles in half masculine Derby hats, manish ulsters aud jackets for street wear.

The Princess Louise has set the fashion in Canada of hanging pictures by wire from two nails instea4 of one, and the nails being placed above the corners of the picture.

A Lowell young woman, formerly a school teacher, and of a highly respectable family, forged her father's name to a check, in order to get money to gratify her inordinate love of fashionable clothes.

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Of course no woman evei* did such a thing, but suppose now, for the sake of argument, as it were, that a woman were to go to church for the purpose of showing off her new sacque, would it be sac-religious, so to speak.—Boston Traveller.

A Vassar College girl challenges any girl of any institution in the United States to chew gum with her. She offers to chew a hundred quarters worth of gum in one hundred consecutive quarter days. Gum to be clear of hair and not mixed with shoemaker's wax. "It's bad enough," said the eldest Miss Crabapple to her seven sisters, "for pa to talk about marrying again at this time of lifebut when he excuses himself by saying that that pert made-up young thing will help us girls out by attracting men to the house, it's too outrageous to stand, so it is."

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Women were never cut out for professional base ball players. A woman can do most anything, but she can't slide in on the home base, bark her shins, sprain her shoulders, put three fingers out of joint, and then get up smiling as sweetly as if she were eating molasses taffy, while waiting for her best fellow to take her to the circus

An old gentlemen without wh, uu meeting some ladies whom he had known as girls, cordially remarked: "Bless me! how time flies! Let me see, it's fifty-two years oome next April sinoe we used to go to school together in the old red school-house. I was a little chap then, you remember, and you were fine young women." He never oould understand why his cordial greeting was so coldly received.

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A Fashion writer says: "I hope nobody will inquire of me what the bridegrooms are to wear, because the fact that tbey are to be of the party at all had just occured to me, and I have no means at hand by which I can obtain information of their boots, coats, etc. Probably no one but themselves will ever observe their bridal attire. And yet some woman insist that tbey do not receive proper attention.

At a country party the other night a humorist was called upon to get up a new kind of play. Seeing an electric battery he started it, took one of the handles himself, gave the other to the prettiest girl in the room, and proposed that tbey kiss each other. As their lips met two million needles seemed to break in all their effulgence upon the startled beauty, and now she knows what kissing Is.—N. Y. Herald.

LODOKS 60 and 64, accompanied by the Ringgold Band, will go down to Evanevllle on the regular train, to-morrow, to attend the funeral of George MeManus, the E.AT.E road, with ite usual liber* •Hty, giving free transportation to the members of these lodges, and also to all employes of the road. Others wishing to go will be taken at half fare. :V um

Since the above was in type, the following dispatch has been received: EVASSVIIXS, April 2$.

H. C. DAVIS:—To accommodate the large number of persons who desire to attend the funeral of McManus, to-mor-row, I have decided to run a speds! traiu, leaving Term Haute at 7 a. in and bring alt who desire come, at $2 the round trip, the entire proceeds of train to be applied to purchase of a monument to be ulacedover his remains. J. E. MAKTHCj Supt.

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CHURCH NOTES.

Rev. H. A. Merrill, of Aurora, Iud., will occupy the pulpit of Unlversalist church to-morrow,

Rev. A. B. Miller, of Evansville, wilt" fill the pulpit of the First Baptist Church to-morrow, Rev. C. R. Henderson going to Evansville to conduct the funeral services of George McManus.

Centenary M. E. Church Annual Church Extension Day. Preaching by the pastor at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at 2:30 p. m.

First Presbyterian Church —Ale*." Sterrett, pastor—Special morning subject, "The Waters of Affliction."

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

St. Stephens—Sunday school at 9:15 a. m. Morning Prayer at 10:15 a. m. Lit-.. any, sermon, and celebration Holy^ eommunion at 11 a. m. Evening prayer and sermon at 7:30 p. m. Evening prayer on Wednesday at 4:30 p. m. Services on Friday8-aud holy days at 10 a. m.

Rev. R. Jeffries will hold his third quarterly meeting to-morrow. Rev. J. H. Clay, of Greencastle, will preach at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Rev. R. Jeffries will preach at 3 p. in., after which the saenment of the Lord's Supper will be administered.

FREE LIBRARY.

Editor Mail: Inasmuch as the question of taxation for library purposes will, through the" action of the council, be submitted to at vote of the citizens of Terre Haute at th» 1 coming municipal election, and as there: is, properly enough, a general desire oa the part of tax payers and others to be-, informed authoritatively in regard to the privileges aud benefits to be enjoyed, by the people of all classes in such library, the board of directors, at their meeting on last Saturday evening, unanimously adopted the following: "Resolved: That the secretary be instructed to announce, through tho public press of the city, that the'Term Haute Public Libraryr will beessentlally and practically a free library, subject only to such rules and regulations as are absolutely necessary to secure books and other property ef the association from loss and injury, and such only as are' usual in all other libraries of a similar character."

That the spirit and intent of this res~ olution, which is Ibelieved to expressr the wishes of the shareholders and all4 friends of the enterprise, will be carried*' out in good faith, the character of the»^ members of the board, who have thus., officially and publicly pledged themselves, 'and who are legally authorized''" to shape the policy of the library, is, it i» believed, a sufficient guaranty, and will, command the confidence of the voters of Terre Haute.

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THE GREAT FOR EPA UGH SIIO Wr

The coming of this veritable giant of the road, as eliciting much comment ia.^,"*" this vicinity, on Friday ofnoxtjweek will be a day long to be remembered. The Louisville Commercial, amongt other good things, speaks as follows 0$^ the great show

The second day of Forepaugb's short season at the Exposition Building was a grand success both performances being exceedingly well attended. Last night, especially, there was an immense throng present, every available seat, being occupied, standing-room evenT'. being at a premium. Too much cannolP*f be said in praise of the refined and artietlc performance, which from the beginning to the end elicited the warms^^*^ est approbation.

In addition to the many clever a mentioned in vesterdav's Commercial there area number of others well worthy of being noticed, particularly the ap« pea ranee of "Mahomet," a superb stallion, which, by the perfect manner ia which be performs his several trioka, reflects considerable credit upon his trainer, Mr. William Monroe. A very amusing performance is that of Hector, the remarkably well-trained dog, which performs on horseback, jumping over Bars and thvougb hoops while the horse is at a full gallop, almost as well as a a human being. Ajax, who has been aptly termed the boneless man, astonished every one, and sained great applause by his most remarkable contortions, whloh 1^* truly must be seen to be thoroughly appreciated. The battoute leaping by a large corps of athletes, 14 very goad, some of them even vaulting over as many as five elephants at one time. The acrobatic act, difficult though it is, was well performed by the Mette I* Brothers, as also was the intricate exerelse upon the triple horizontal bars bv a I very clever corps of gymnasts. Miss I Emma Stickney'a splendid riding, and the woderful control that she possesses over her steed, contiuues to the heartiest applause immediately upon her retiring from the ring, Mr. Billy Burke, the most mirth-provoking down, appeals in a masquerade representing Miss Stickney on horse-back, an8 imitates the different tricks that her well trained horse performs in a manner so ridiculous and absurd (hat it keeps the audience in a continuous roar of laughter.

As usual, the five performing elephants, under tbe-guidance of theirtlever trainer, Adam Forepaugh, Jr., are still the center of attraction, as they execute at each performance so many astonishing tricks, particularly the wonderful pyramid formed by the entire herd, with their trainer standing upoxr the top also, the two young ones playing at a game of "see-saw," which ere*'* ates the greatest amusement.

TMfc Ague Cure is warranted to never fail to cure Fever, Ague or Chilli. We see by the people's recommenda-^ tion that it istbe best remedy lath* market, without doubt.

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