Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 9, Number 49, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 June 1879 — Page 2

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TKRRE HAUTE, JUNE 7, 1879

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Friday Evening, has a large circulation in the surrounding towns, where it is sold by newsboys and agents. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Evening, go«s into the hands of nearly every reading person in the city,and the fanners of* this immediate vicinity. Every Week's Issue Is, in laci,

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

In which all Advertisements appear for THE PRICE OF ONE ISSUE.

THEABRAIIAM OF POCASSET. Charles F. Freeman's sacriflee of bis child, little Edith, at Pocasset, is still exciting a great deal of interest among the people in the vicinity and comment from the pulpit and press everywhere. The New England preachers of several denominations have preached on the subject of this human sacrifice to faith, and, as usual, are divided in sentiment and opinion. One said that be doubted whether the story of Abraham being called to sacrifice bis son ought to be accepted literally, and another, in a neighboring church, on the same day, argaed that it should be literally construed and believed. Freemen is in jail meditating upon his act of butchering Editb, and utterly unable to understand why she didn't rise according to promise. Freeman is closely watched by a medical detective, who has as yet discovered no sign of insanity. He professes to prefer being convicted, sentenced and hanged for murder rather than be acquitted on the ground of insanity. He affirms and reaffirms that he knew-perfectly well before the act the responsibility be was taking, and realizes it thoroughly now, ana adds that as a faithful Christian be was constrained to sacriiice his child. He still thinks that the killing of little Editb, which he religiously believes he was commanded to do, will serve some great and good purpose yet—so firm is his faith that he was not mistaken in the roice. The wide publicity and discussion of the sacrifice be considers may do good to the cause of religion. The Second Adventists of Pocasset are all reading their fiibles over again to arrive, if possible, at an understanding of its promises and failures to perform. An old elder of the church sits all day long *and night through with his Bible on bis 'knees and reads between naps and comments: "I don't understand it. Here is the promise that if we have faith sufficient we may say to a mountain 'fie removed,' and it Is done. Our faith was equal to that, and yet our faith does not avail."

Mrs. Freeman is pining in her prison. She has lately experienced a change of views regarding the act. She says that both she and her husband for several days after thoroughly believed that their child would be raised to them, but at length her heart failed her, and now she knows they did wrong. She thinks it was a temptation of the devil, and that they were surely mistaken in the voice. Having thus made up her mind, she has dismissed all thought of their act in its religious aspect ana relations, and pines for her slain child and her partner in sorrow, from whom she Is separated. She does not want her other daughter, Bessie, brought into her presence, for fear the surroundings of the prison might cloud the child's life. Bessie is with friends, going to school, and does not yet know that her sister Edith is dead.

ABRAHAM OF THE BIBLE. Since the murder of little Edith Freeman by her father, who was a firm believer in the literal truth of the exhibition of faith as manifested by Abraham, who was it appears, willing to attest his faith by murdering his son, people begin to look into the character of Abraham. In the East the clergy have very generally commented on it in connection with the Posassot sacriiice. The opinion is divided. SJIOO ministers holding that they should give up the idea of preaching that the thing related of Abraham was.anything more than a figure, or symbol of faitb, while some hold that the entire narrative should be received in its literal sense. Mrs. Bladen, of the Philadelphia Sunday Times, referring to the course of the church at Keokuk in dismissing a brother of Mark Twain's for certain heretical views that he held concerning Abraham, gives her opinion of the character of Abraham after the following fashion:

Orion Clemens, the brother of Mark Twain, was publicly excommunicated from the Westminster Presbyterian Church, of Keokub, Iowa, on May 11. He had delivered a lecture to a few friends, in which he said that Abraham was a lire-worshipper, and sacrificed Isaac to the sun alao that Melchesldik was a prieat of the sun. Mr. Clemens appeared before the session, which found him gnllty of heresy, and ordered that he should be excommunicated, which order was carried into eflact by the R^v. Dr. C/alg. The church was crowded, and many of the congregation moved to tears, but Mr. Clemens was quite composed, antl walked home to dinner without any appsaranoe of terror or alarm.

To the average human intelligence, It seems rather a relief to learn that Abraham, who drove one child into the desert to starve, and wanted to barn np the other, not a member of the choasa racs, v. [ah, indeed, only dates Biblically from Ute time of Ju ib. Why anybody wants to uphold the character of Abraham is not explained by the record, which sets him

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a cowardly man, an unfaithful ba»oan! and cruel father. He sold his wife"* virtue to secure his own safety, ra

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How few women, says the Boston

"Lr~^ ,TT* Times, can go into a store, ask for what & they want at the counter whew it i» FOR THE PEOPLE. S gold, examine and buy it without

again, carrying with them the good will of the salesman .There are, unhappily, very few who can do this. Some worn en really seem to take singular and in explicable pleasure in giving the salesman as much trouble as possible, and reducing him to a condition bordering on fren«y—which he must conceal, of course. There has been a great deal written about the indlfferenoe and Impertinence of clerks, but if one would understand the trials which these clerks undergo let him go behind a counter for a lew days. Perhaps he would feel at the end of that time that there was some excuse for indifference if not for impertinence. Women who find time hang heavily on their hands go into stores merely for amusement. They have no intention of buying perhaps haven't a nickel with them but they don't tell the clerks this. By no means, Is it any of their business? No, indeed tbey have the patient salesman at the dress goods' counter pull down one piece alter another tbey examine each one carefully decry all say the quality is not as good for the pnee as tbey have seen elsewhere and fiaally, when their patience as well as that of the clerk has been exhausted, walk away with the consoling remark that "they didn't want to buy to-day, anyhow, only to examine." Then, to pastures new, where fresh goods and different styles, as well as different clerks, give redoubled spirit, and the same weary scene is enacted, to the discomfort and vexation of other salesmen. These women have, probably, never sto to reflect on the trouble they give those whom stern necessity induces to stand behind a counter. Perhaps half of them, if spoken to on the subject, would answer that it wa* a clerks business to show goods. "He is paid for it: if he don't like it, let him leave it." Precisely. But he might find it difficult, perhaps impossible, to find work elsewhere. Times are hard, business dull, employers economizing, and there are usually little and big mouths which must be fed, no matter whether or not the bread-winner finds his employment congenial. These women shoppers should remember that clerks are human beings and have feelings, in spite of their calling. They ean feel tired, vexed, impatient and hurt, as well as can the women who have no pity for them.

QUESTIONS OF MODESTY.

WHAT SHOCKS SOUTHERN WOMEN IN THE NORTH-THE MEN WHO GRAB WOMEN.

It is strange, says the Providence Despatch, how different civilization looks upon the same matter. In Japan, for instance, men, women and children bathe freely together without a vestige of clothing, and with no thought or suggestion of indecency. There is, in the United States, even, a wide differ ence in the views which women of different sections entertain in respect to what constitutes an insult from a mau. It is undeniable that at the North a degree of contact and familiarity is tolerated witLout a thought of impropriety, which in the South is resented as an impertinence and insolence. The recent tragedy at Richmond, Va., in which Charles C. Curtis was shot dead by John Poindexter, is a case in point. The murdered man had complimented Miss Isabella Cottrell, Poindexter's sweetheart, on her pretty foot, and had, as the young lady declared, squeezed her arm rather too warmly In helping her into the carriage. With this as a provocation, Poindexter cowhided Curtis and then shot him dead, and the jury could not agree that Poindexter had committed a crime in taking Curtis' life.

ANew York girl, the other day, invited her annt, from Savannah, who was visiting her, to enter a Broadway shoe storo, with her. Araminta, the niece, much to her aged relative's horror, projected her pretty foot and ankle across the clerk's knee, had her old boots removed and submitted interestedly, holding her dress conveniently out of the way, while the clerk began encasing thei fair one's nether extremities in a new and extra long pair of fifteen-dollar "high buttoners?" The Savannah aunt was shocked beyond expression at her niece's strange immodesty in exposing her stockinged feet to male gaze, and when the shoe clerk, beginning at the lower buttons, gradually progressed In his upward work, Georgia modesty and propriety could no longer endure the shocking spectacle, and down came the sun umbrella on the shoe clerk's head with a whack, and her fingers tingling with shame made busy with his hair. It was to no purpose that Araminta explained that such things were the "regular thing" in New York. That is undoubtedly the truth, and the reporter who has been int9rviewlng New York belles, apropos of the bloody tragedy at Klchmond, doubtless correctly reports the views which prevail among the women in Gotham.

At the South, however, there is no immediate prospect of the adoption of the views or the degree of freedom from men which is tolerated in New York and elsewhere in the North. Nor can It be denied that looseness which many shoe clerks, hack drivers, car conductors, policemen and others exhibit at the North in handling women is, from the Southern standpoint, very shocking. Tbey find a breastpin out of plumb, or a hairpin sticking a sixteenth of as inch further out than it should, or a lock of hair astray, or a watch slipping out of a belt, or a gather of a dress h&s started the stitching, or a flower in the bat draopa a little, or the shawlpin doesn't hang just so, and tbey insist OH fixing thsse matters, and keep fumbling and pawing and picking away at a lady until attention is drawn to the perform# tad snnoyanee Is the result. Oneo: IL fellows will put bis hand under a ladyl&^Mxwa to lift her over a straw on tba walk, across a six-inch gutter, and when going up a rise of two or: atsteps, will Insist upon putting uisartu upon ber waist and partially lifting ber up. If be helps ber Into a

„.. carriage, he wants to lift her in, and, in

away from Lot, drove bis child and hi*, assisting ber to alight, be makes her

away from l.«oi, drove bis child and hi* .assisting ber to alight, be makes her child's mother out to starve, aud was} jump into his arms, where he holds her only held by the gel of the Lord from as long as hedares. While riding with murdering the tor one, aud yet L* her he always bas bis arm on the sent etUed by Tbe cburchee the father of ih* behind ber. ready to sebei her waist faithful. Cau anybody tell to whom or every time there a jolt big enough to what be was faithful give an excuse for doing so. In fact, be

To cut off the pretensions of Abraham seems to be continually aching to paw, and a few more reprobate®, to semi- in one way or another, every 1« deification, is a good work for the a l•atsceoi *. of religion, which the charcbs ugbt to recognize, instead of making their communion ridiculous by excommunicating investigators la the nineteenth century.

in one way or another, every lady iato whose company be la thrown, it may not be improper between people prettv well acquainted with each other, but ft doesn't look well, and ladies, while they don't like to appear to be annoyed, still feel aud wisu io be let alone.

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WHAT A BALLET GIRL KNOWS.

THE VIEWS OF A MEMBER OF THE CORPS OF THE DANGERS AND PROFANITIE8 OF

THE BTAQE.

From the New York Qraphio. "They term us all ballet now," said the young woman, "though we may nevev dance. We are live dummies to hang charaoter dresses on. One week a court lady, the next a sailor in 'Pinafore,' gypsies, peasants, parts of a crowd, invited guests at balls, and so on. It's hard work getting out of these lower ranks. Where one succeeds, hundreds remain always on this dead level. There are ambitious girls, too, in these walks, who could at short notioe fill higher parts. I can't say bow oreditably, be cause they've never had the obance to try in public. They are intelligent, lady-like girls, too—well read, lady-like In demeanor, correct in habits. Some attend school in the daytime, and their small earnings are a help to many a cramped income. Some are regularly met at the stage door by their mothers or some members of the family, and go directly home, while others go to a late supper with a gentleman." "What is your opinion of present stage morality?"

Said the young woman: "It's the fashion now among the liberally inclined to commend the stsge. That is well. But from certain experiences of mine at times for the past few years, behind the scenes, I wouldn't advise any mother to trust her daughter too readily to the stage until she was certain the daughter could look out well for herself.7' "A woman, position, may experience little annoyance or risk unless she lays herself open to it. But the poor girls, the supernu meraries, must often endure the advances of any 'leading gentleman' who chooses to force himself upon her. To speak plainly, gentlemen will assume a forwardness of demeanor with a strange girl in such a position, which tbey would not dare to do elsewhere. Would Mr. ask a society young lady to a late supper within two hours after first setting eyes upon her, as he did me at the theater? "You may think it easy to avoid these things, but it is not. As to propriety, girls in the humbler dramatic walks are very much mixed. Some are good, some are bad. Managers do not hire morals. If a girl shows well and acts with outward propriety that is all that is required of her. This mixture gives a bad man many opportunities, since he may assume that they are all on the same plane of character and act accordingly. He has the vantage ground of position "Then to bristle up and do the 'indignant grand* is to make an enemy and injure your own chance of getting forward. The gauge of conduct under such circumstances is not that of other society. I speak here as one without friends or outside influence to push one ahead. "It's the custom of the place. It's a behind the scene custom, handed down for generations from the old English stage,'where every woman in the profession was ostracised by society, and where the whispered verdict at all events was that it was hardly possible to be an actress and a virtuous woman. "Stage managers sometimes prove great trials to the humbler girls. Some are coarse In demeanor and rough in language. When out of patience they will use big D's and little d's very plentifully. They lose respect for women. They i&e too much of them. A manager arrives at last to that condition of life and habits as to regard his stage as many married men regard their homes—a place granting full liberty to fume, fret and bully. Tbey have some cause. A crowd of chattering, empty-headed girls is a trying charge for any man."

young lady." continued the young an, "fortified by friends and social

You have seen the stage stripped of its illusions, then?" "Yes." "There are other things besides scene painting which are illusions. The lovely couple of sisters in front may not have spoken to each other for weeks behind the scenes. I have heard a lady wbo played the sweetheart to a famous comedian considerably past his prime bemoan herself before going on that she should ever be obliged to play with that 'old painted bag of bones.' I have seen a young actress whose head was turned by success and admiration to that extent that she deemed herself beyond any of the common restraints of the green room, roundly scolded by her hoydenish ways. I have heard a brilliant star, after the play, bluntly reproved by the gentlenftan who supported ber for blnrtiug out before a street car full of people some of the incidents of the play, seemingly with the design that every one should be made to know ge are more sensitive than ladies in this respect. Certainly it was so in this respect, for Mr. at the first opportunity, flatly told Miss not to talk stage business with hhn in a horse car again. "Then so many of the ladies become infected with a certain stage slang and stage familiarity with each other. It's on a 'Holloa Jack!' and 'Holloa Jim I' basis. They have a certain over-familiar rough, slangy stage way among each other, which seems very unpleasant at first to a beginner. It is this style so common to many green rooms, which, beoomtng, as it were, the custom of the place, which grants a vulgar man certain privileges of approach. "A certain proportion—indeed, a large proportion—of theatrical people live so much among themselves as to forget there's any outside world except that seen nightly from the footlights, Their talk is all with each other and of each other and about their peculiar business. I heard an actress once remark that she had been twice round the world, and about all she had seen of it was a steamer, the inside of railway cars, the inside of hotels and the inside of theaters. Some people living such lives become fiiled to overflowing with conceit, and deem there's little outside the dramatic world worth consideration. It's nob wonderful, considering how mneb morfe attention and admiration theatrical people of prominence receive than those in otbet walks of life. "I don't know of any place either where »o much pure Satanism is brought together and acted out in so small a company behind the soenes. I've beet) 'on' many a night when in a company of forty people I never beard a good word spoken for anybody. It seemed all hatred, jealousy and backbitingr The •star swore because one of his support played too well and attracted attention from him. 'It was his piece, and he wanted It played according to bis directions.' You have no idea how Jealo-cw snmel.of these people, are wbo own plays.* Tbey make no concealment or the fact that their support must 'play down* to a certain level in order to give their acting the more pro mine nee. Then the leading lady would smile in the feee of her stage sister, and. the moment she was out of ear-shot abum her for overdressing. The old women, past their prime for flUrtatio^Jfrmd employment

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in watching glrla notloed bv tbe actors and whispering scandal, It's enough at tlmea to make one a cynic, lose filth in any good in human nature, and dually go and do likewise with all one's might." ••But all is not so black behind the scenes?" "Of course not. In my small experience I have met with more gentlemen, in tbe fullest sense of tbe term, among actors than Io any other rank of life. Tbey are generous, upright, pure men, wbo could lend one a helping hand in the matter of advice and assistance without implying by manner exaction or demand, But such are not in tbe majority—on the stage or off. But tbe wings are not Sunday schools yet, at least in some theaters." v*

JT' DEAF PEOPLE. .^ SOME OF THEIR INCONVENIENCES

AND ADVANTAGES.

Saturday Review.

Those who live much with deaf people are fully aware that their misfortune is not entirely a one sided affair. There are more interesting questions than "What?" an interrogation which Id too frequently put to them by their dull eared friends. It is unpleasant, t^o, to be required by one person to tell a good story twice, when tbe rest of tbe party beard it distinctly tbe first time, and it is disagreeable to be obliged to speak in an unnaturally loud tone in society, particularly wbenlconsoious that one's remarks are not of world wide interest. It is provoking, too, to be requested to repeat another person's story before he has got to tbe end of it himself. Tbe deaf man wbo is fond of gossip is a source of peril both to friend ana foe. All soandal mongers are dangerous but tbe deaf soant^l monger is such an unsafe member of society that he Is unfit to go about without a keeper. He hears part of a story, mishears another part and fails altogether to hear the remainder. He seizes bis scraps, and patches them together lrom surmise. Armed with this valuable information, be proceeds to spread it broadcast. It is not often that be can get bold of a story in any shape, so, when he can piece one together, he tells it to everybody be meets.

It bas been observed that, if one watches dancers with closed ears, tbe result is ridiculous, as tbey seem to be capering about to no purpose more absurd, however, is tbe appearance of a preacher when we cannot hear what be says. The dancers, at any rate, seem good humored, but here we have a man who appears to have worked himself into a passion with some person or persons unknown, and we long to advise him to keep bis temper, be things ever so bad. From his manner we at one time infer that he is trying the offset of persuasion, at another that of invective we can hear his voice raised or lowered, quivering in emotion or railing in indignation but we cannot distinguish whether he is scolding a congregation or abusing an absent friend. Our attention being unoccupied with the matter of his sermon, we have ample time to notice all his little tricks and mannerism we anxiously watch for fresh gestures, and wonder which attitudes or movements foretell an approaching conclusion. Watching singing is little more amusing than watching preaching. Of course, a person who is not entirely deaf can generally hear a great part of a song but in a large .opera house or concert room, when far from the orchestra, he loses quite enough to mar the enjoyment of the whole, and sometimes he can hear little of the solos except the highest shrieks of the sopraiio. When she lowers her voice, it gradually becomes more and more Indistinct, until she seems to open her mouth without making any perceptible sound, and these apparently mute movements of her lips are followed by an outburst of uproarious applause, which contrasts curiously with the (to the deaf person) dead silence which preceded and invoked it. Little less extraordinary is the effect produced by the reader of a comic story when we cannot hear a word be says. Unlike tbe case of the preacher, it is the audience and not the speaker that seems eccentric when the tbeme of tbe discourse is amusing. Without apparent cause their features twitch and their diaphragms convulse. The appearance of others in fits of laughter Is more ridiculous than dignified to thoso wbo are not themselves amused. Very odd, too. seem the movements of a 9peaker and nis audience at a public dinner when we cannot hear him. He stutters and hesitates, smiles and goes through various autics, and then the listeners cry, "Hear, hear," and thump the table until the glasses jingle.

Defective hearing is not without its effect upon tbe mind and character of tho patient. Preventing him from entering into general conversation, it has a tendency to make him observant, and be becomes a looker-on In society, learns to notice quickly expressions of pleasure, ill temper, interest or weariness in tbe faces of others. On the other hand, through his inability to enrage in ordinary discourse, he loses his habit

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repartee, and generally bocomes a slow, diffident and awkward talker. Mistrusting his bearing, be practically obtains most of his information from print, in which case be bas time to draw bis conclusions at leisure. He is apt in oonsequence to lose the facility of rapid thought so neoessary in a good conversationalist. He is, however, very tenacious ot his leisurely matured opinions, and trusts them implicitly, often gaining a reputation for obstinacy. This is tbe chief reason of our hearing so frequently of people being "as deaf as posts and as obstinate as mules." The deafer a man gets the more distrustful be becomes ofhuman speocb, and he hesitates to form a decision on a question unless be ha* seen it stated In black and wbite. Hi* loss of susceptibility to the Influence of the voice of others renders him less affected also by their presence. Thrown so much upon himself, he becomes absent, and feels alone among a crowd. A confusion of discordant sounds has little power to annoy him. He is not worried by "oarret organs or street cries, nor do equinoctial gales or barking dogs disturb his slumbers and be mav always console himself with the reflation that a largo proportion of tbe conversation which beloses through his infirmity is not worth bearing. His lot may be a sad one, but it is said that there is no creature so miserable or weak as to be ungift&d with any means of self-defense,

tbe deaf man la no

exception to this rule. When his conduct is disapproved of, and when error* and misdeeds have been pointed out to faim is long and passionate harangue, bomn ntterly disconcert his accuser by requesting him kindly tj repeat a bat be bas said.

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A SEA*named Clare bad raised a large family of boys. He bal desired a girl, but the fates bad gone against him. At last, after six baby boys had come to bless him and keep bim buying bread and dealing out pennies, a girl bad in an appearance. Ho was so deligl and surprised that be rft'sed up bis voice and exclaimed, "Well, I declare I" And so tbey named ber Ida Clare.

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A NOTABLE COURTSHIP.

THE HUSBAND OF JULIA SMITH TELLS HOW BE WON HIS BRIDE. From His Speech at Their Wedding Receptlon.

My acquaintance with this lady began quietly at first. I lived away up North. Last summer, when I read that ker sister bad departed, I wanted to express my sympathy in some way, but knew not how to do it exactly, bnt finally sent her a volume of my poems, having written on the margin, "With deep sympathies of the author."

Thereupon she sent me a pamphlet entitled, "Abby Smith and ber Cows." On tbe Cover or that pamphlet I saw an advertisement saying that Miss Julia Smith, unaided, had translated tbe entire Bible, and that it was for sale at Hartford. I immediately sent for it, and found that it was unlike tbe usual version, or King Jame's Bible, as it is called. I then began reviewing the Bible, and the first thing that I noticed was the tenses—how different they were from those in tbe common version. I then wrote to the translator and she replied. Then I wrote again and got another reply, and finally I wrote to her that such a large book as tbe Bible could not be gone over by correspondence, and said I would like to visit ber. She then cordially and frankly invited me to come. I came, and we chatted together, I think we sat right there (pointing to tho sofa.)

I think on tbe first visit we chatted three hours at one sitting. I did not expect to call again. And nt last, when I got ready with my satchel in my hand to walk down to the stage, I found a carriage at the door. I asked her who was to drive She said, "I must, as you would not know where to go."

From that time I found her acquaintance so pleasant that I asked leave to call again.

She thought it not advisable to marry at all that she bad better wend ber way through the remainder of ber life alone. But at last I convinced her I was a mau of honor, and somewhat of a scholar, and uot a tramp and she finally said: "Upon the whole, if we can live happier together, I don't know why we should not. The house is large enough for both of us."

And so she put the case into my hands, and, by tbe help of Dr. Scudder, she is my wife."

MONEY AND LOVE.

WHY "EVERY MAN AT SOME TIME OR ANOTHER DESIRES TO COMMIT SUICIDE."

Cincinnati Enquirer, Paris Letter. In no city are there more numerous and more varied "professors" than you will find in Paris. I saw it announced last night, as I was walking along from tbe Northern Railroad depot, where you arrive coming from London, that "Professor Soudain" would lecture on "Suicides." What was meant by this announcement seemed to puzzle tbe crowd outside tbe door. I paid my two francs and entered. I found, to my surprise, a very large number of persons already seated, and some of them looked like antiquarians, adventurous travelers, successful and unsuccessful lawyers, poor and popular novelists, second and third class essayists, and some stock brokers and broken down merchants, politicians and poltroons. The "Professor" promptly appeared on the platform. He announced his intention to speak on "Suicide and Suicidal Subjects." "Gentlemen," bo boldly said, "every one of you bas, at some time or another, more or less often, thought and desired to commit suicide." A profound silence follows this remark. The lawyers look at tbe stock brokers askant the servants peepvunder their bands at the travelers, and merchants fumble In their pockets vigorously, while politicians and poltroons bang low their heads. "Yes! every one of you has, more or less often, contemplated suicide, and if there be one present here, capable of honestly saying 'No,' let him step up here!" Not one stepped up not one said "No!" Then the "Professor" progressed learnedly on tbe common crime, actual and attempted, contemplated and frustrated. He said there was not 3 per cent, of the men of tbe world who bad not come to consider suicide more or less near completion, and more or less provoked and prevented alike by cowardice. He bad gone into the question for years, aud in various countries. There was a larger percentage of married men in this list of cowards than single, and a larger proportion of lawyers than any other pro fession. France at one time headed tht» lists of suicides, but now England and Germany could "favorably compete." America "In the Northern and New England States was almost equal to Ger many, but France was still ahead of all nations in tbe refinement as well as the roughness of the suicidal mania." (Loud cheers) "Go into any community of truthful speaking men, and ask tbe in bow many will step up aud say 'no' to my first question. Go east, go west, go north and go sontb, and you will get but one answer If men speak truly." The "PrOfessor" then went into a scientific why and wherefore of this, and laid the burden of the coward's crime at the door of "money and love." 1hf-el

ETTJNO THE FASHION IN PIG ig SKIN CAPS. Shoe ftnd Leather Reporter. A merchant in Bangor, Me., many years ago, opened a store In one of tbe thriving towns in tbe northern part of the State, where he found sale for a great many goods which bad become "out of fashion." Among other articles sent to his country store were a lot of pig skin caps, whicb, however, proved too much for the genius of bis salesman, and tbey lay in stock a long time. One day the merchant visited the town where bis store was located, and noticing tbe pig skin caps, inquired if any bad been sold. "Not one," responded the salesman "no one will purchase tbem." "Very well," said the owner, "have tbem all taken to tbe back part of the store, brushed ap clean, and put in the window next Monday morning." On tbe tbe ensuing Sunday tbe merchant made bis appearance at the village cburcb, dressed in beat broadcloth, with a heavy gold watch chain dangling from his vest, and a pig skin cap Jauntilv set on tbe side of hi* bead. On Monday tbe Mile of tbe pig skin caps comtnencad, and continued until the whole lot were disposed Of.

Factory Facta.

Close oonflaement, careful attention to all factory work, gives the operatives pallid faces, poor appetite, languid, miserable foelfng*, poor blood, inactive liver, kidbeys 'ana urinary troubles, and all the physicians and medicine in tbe world cannot help them unless tbey get out doors or use Hop Bitters, made of tbe purest and best remedies, and especially for such cases, having abundance of bealtb, sunshine and rosy cheeks la tbem. None need suffer if tbey will use them freely. They to it but a trifle. See another column,

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Bronchitis, a premonitory of pulmonary consumption, is characterized by catarrh, or inflammation of the mucous ttembraae of the air passages, with coogh and expectoration. abort breath, hoarseness, pains in the chest. For all bionchial affections, store throa aphonia or l«tsa of voice, coughs. Dr. Swayne's Compound Sjrup of Wild Cherry ia a sovereign remedy.

PRICK—Trial size bottles 25 cents. Large size (holding five of the small) 5f, or six for $5. Prepared only by Dr. Swayne Son, 830 N. Sixth street, Philade. phla. So by all prominent druggists. Bantin & Armstrong, Terre Haute. Swayne'8 Pever and Ague JPi lis are the best.

A Valuable Discovery* Dr. Swayne's Tar and Sarsa par 111a Pill* are tne most effective aud congenial purgative ever discovered They are mild but effectual lu their opt rat Ion, moving the bowels surely and without pain. Although gentle In their opera* ion, they are still the most thorough and pleasant cathartic medicine that can be employed, cleansing the storuach and bowel* and puric'ying the blood. Headache, constipated bowels, inward piles costiveness, fevers, torpid liver, yellowness of the slcln and eyes, indigestion, dyspepsia, and all derangements are cured by Swayne's lar and SarsapariliaPMls. Price, 25 cants a box of 3u pills, or 5 boxes SI. Prepared only by Dr. Swayne A Son, Philadelphia. Sold byallprominent druggists. In Terra Haute by Buntin 4 Armstrong.

Clifford's Febrifuge Palatable, Powerful, Autfperiodic aud Tonic.. Nature's remedy for Fever and Ague. Never known to fail In a single case. This popular remedy differs from all other Ague Cures In being free from all poisonous effects on the system It enters into tho circulation and destroys all malarious poison, and thus eradicates the disease without producing any of those distressing, after sensations, such as fulness aud paiu in the head, ringing in the ears and partial deafness. Try it once and you will never be without it.

J. C. RICHARDSON, Prop'r,

For sale by all druggists. St. Louis.

A CARD.

To all who are suffering from the errors and indiscretions of youth, nervous weakness, early decay, loss of manhood, sec., I will send a recipe that will cure you, FREE OF CHARGE, This great remedy was discovered by a missionary In South America. Send a self addressed envelope to the REV JOSEPH T. INSCAX, Station D, New York City.

Evansyille, Terre Haute and Cliicago R'y.

dixvTlleboijte. THROUGH TO CHICAGO WITHOUT CHANGE OF CARS.

Trains leave Union Depot, Terre Haute,, as llows: 6:40a. m„ daily, except Sunday. 9:50 p. m., dally.

Through s'.eeplug cars on all nighttralns. Close connection is made at Danville for Peoria and points west, also with Wabasb trains both east and west.

JOS. COLLEIT, Superintendent. 8 HUNT. G. T. A.

NITED STATES SCALES.

My improved Wagon and Railroad track scales are taking the lead in all localities where they have had an IntroductionMechanics and of era who have examined them pronounce them constructed ou better principles than any others in use, insuringa greater degree of sensitiveness and durability. If you want scales, tien't be humbugged into paying a big ptlce for a name. Investigate and save your money, aud at the same time get a better scale. The marcli Is onward, and scales aro belug Improved, like everything else, circulars, references, price lints, etc., free on application. Address S. J. AUSTIN, Patentee,

if

Terre Hau e, lnd.

Ofllce, corner Fourth and Fhrnngton.

A Trial Will Insure its Popularity Everywhere.

W

"WHITE

Shuttle Sewing Machine

When once nsed will retain its .place forever. It Is celebrated for its advantages, in that it is one of the largest sewing machines zt ftnufactured—adapted alike to the use of the family or tbe workshop It Sim the largest shir tie, with a bobbin that holds almofrt a spool of thread.

Theshuttle tension Is adjustable without remaving tbe thuttle from the machine. This machine is so constructed that the power is applied directly over the needle, thus enabling it to sew the heaviwit material with uneqnaled ease. It Is very simple in its construction, durable as iron and steel can make It, all Its wearing parts case hardened or steel, and ingeniously provided with means for taking up loat motion so we are justified In Warranting:

Kvery

Maehiue for 3

Years.

It Is the lightest and easiest running machine in the market, it is, also, the most aborately ornamented aud prettiest ma*in I

With nli i'lvant»ges, It is sold from flo to 125 less than other flnrt-claas machines

J.

N.

Hickman, Gen. Agt.

901 Main Mr.*t, Ten- Haute, lnd.

JS FROM THE

Yigo Woolen^Mills

-TO THB—

Wool Growers!"

have a fnll line of goods expressly made I for FARMERS, wlilch I will exchange lor wool at the highest market prlco, or for ^Viflll also receive wool on commission, and make cash advancement on Philadelphia and Boston market price*

We believe it will be tothe ad vantage-of farmers to call at the Vigo Woolen Mills and exchange their wool for goods.

U- R. JEFFEHS,

Cor. Tenth and Mala sts., Terr© Haute, In 4,